calling by name; designation; nomination
almost; roughly; approximately
Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
overwhelming strength; extremely strong person; powerhouse; very strong player; very strong team
mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
indigestion; dyspepsia; incomprehensibility; inability to understand
inside one's heart; in one's mind
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
youth; springtime of life; adolescent
selfishness; egotism; egoism; egocentricity
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
to tattle; to tell on; to inform a superior of someone's actions
to take to task; to take it out on
course; route; path; process; means
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful
using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately
my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list)
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
how; in what way; by what means
remittance; sending money
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
there; that situation; that occasion; the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there
reward; honorarium; remuneration
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
transactions; dealings; business
oh my god; how; what the; incredible
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech
that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!
stupid brat; son of a bitch
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
you bastard!; you son of a bitch!