period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad
episode; anecdote; vignette
completely unknown (usu. of people); unfamiliar; complete (stranger)
(sense of) presence; realism; ambiance
assembly hall; meeting place; venue; grounds
Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)
mortarboard; trencher; (square) academic cap formerly worn by Japanese university students
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
medical science; medicine
monologue; soliloquy; German (language)
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
living thing; organism; creature; biology
mathematical principle; mathematics; arithmetic; figures; accounts
studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)
extension; elongation; prolongation; Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)
failing mark (e.g. in exam)
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named
promotion (school, military, etc.)
physiology; menstruation; one's period; menses
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
to plan; to intend; to aspire to; to set aims (sights on)
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
cannot help (feeling); cannot hold back (tears, laughter, etc.)
once and for all; completely; spotlessly