guidance; showing the way; guide; guidepost; signpost; waymark
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows)
Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
brawl outside the stadium; fighting outside ring (wrestling); ring-side battle; verbal fight via the media
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
sharp sighted; easily awakened
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency
old badger; veteran; oldtimer; schemer; old fox
all of a sudden; suddenly; by chance; unexpectedly
late summer; sixth month of the lunar calendar
to remove; to move out of the way
(pressing) hard; badgeringly; pesteringly; repeatedly; urgingly
separate case; another matter
five and seven; 35th day after a person's death
long-serving soldier; veteran
Central Intelligence Agency (US); CIA
general-purpose machine; general-purpose computer
behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)
putting off (doing); postponement; delaying
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
manual labor; manual labour; manual procedures
the work of man; human feat; something humanly possible
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
to use as an intermediary; to mediate; to assist; to worry; to mind; to care