lingering attachment; lingering affection; regret; reluctance; ruefulness
being much talked about; creating a stir; being the talk of town
adviser; someone to consult with; someone to turn to about one's concerns; confidant
connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction
to get strong; to gain strength
every region of the country; all corners of the country; nationwide
to re-cover; to reupholster; to repaper; to renew (e.g. a plaster)
every place; various places
fingernail mark; scratch; scars (e.g. of war); traces (of damage); ravages
refusing flatly; rejecting sternly
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
flying; false start; doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date
preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
good impression; favorable impression
struggle (for); scramble; contest
program board (concert, theatrical production); act-announcement sheets; mekuri karuta
cheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage
application problem; exercises
time and time again; many times; a number of times
separate; scattered; apart
slope; incline; slope (of a linear function); gradient (vector calculus)
to fail; to mess up; to bungle; to screw the pooch
plastic bag; polyethylene bag
another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai
sudden; abrupt; unexpected
New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)
transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis
counselling service (counseling); life matters advice service
cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.); unavoidable; inevitable
information; experience; knowledge; observation
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
to wave a flag; to show the way
beauty of form (oft. used of nature); beauty of a sculpted shape
Shizuoka (city, prefecture)