announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
this is why; this means; it is the case that
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
interview (i.e. television, newspaper, etc.)
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
character; personality; (fictional) character; letter; character
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
costumed mascot character (oft. devised for PR purposes by local governments, government departments, etc.)
yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
degree of familiarity; popularity
living thing; living creature; animal; life
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
citizen of a prefecture; prefectural citizen
misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity
old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds (golf)
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
cartoon-character costume
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
manager (e.g. of a business, an idol, etc.); in a sports team (esp. at school) someone who does the routine drudge work
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
to have an eye on; to zero in on