people; men and women; each person; everybody
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
festival (esp. music, film, etc.)
guerrilla; guerrilla warfare; sudden
way of talking; speaking style
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
attendance; presence; appearance
announcement (esp. over public-address system); official announcement; formal information release
production (e.g. play); direction
successive generations; successive emperors
student (esp. a university student)
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent
festival; feast; carnival
official name; formal name
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
participation; joining; entry; adherence
light music; popular music
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
a cappella; unaccompanied choir or choral work
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
association of like-minded people
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
reading aloud; recitation
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
visitor; attendee; spectator; guest; audience
exorbitant; outrageous; ridiculous; absurd; excessive; inordinate
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to palm off; to force a sale
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
to assume an aspect; to take on an appearance