mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better
leaving school (at the end of the day); getting out of school; coming home from school
junior high school student; middle school pupil
genius; prodigy; natural gift
to crush (with the weight of misfortune)
to catch sight of; to see; to suppose; to assume from appearances
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
to be perturbed; to be agitated
getting up early; early rising; early riser; early bird
the person concerned; the person in question; the said person
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
platform truck; hand truck; trolley; truck; bogie
with a start; in a fright; alarmedly
red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions
(matter) for congratulations; worthy of celebration; happy (occasion, ending, etc.); naive; too good-natured; gullible
emergency food; emergency rations
Japan Self-Defense Forces; JSDF; self-defence force; self-defense force
field ration; combat ration; ration pack
to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
celebration; auspicious occasion
to eat; to become eclipsed (of an astronomical object)
now that; since; so long as; because
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
research; investigation; enquiry; inquiry; study
to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot; to start a conversation
this occasion; at this time; now
going backward; turning back; backtracking; regression; retrogression; relapse
God only knows what may happen
brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
unrequited love; one-sided love
lewdness; lewd person; lecher
devil; evil spirit; genie
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to move (to another place or state); to change (e.g. of state, affiliation, scenery, etc.); to spread (of a fire, smell, etc.); to catch (an illness); to move (e.g. of one's focus); to change (e.g. of one's interest)