thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); good work; see you; goodbye; tiredness; fatigue
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
(already) known; established
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
excuse; explanation; justification; defense; defence
completely honest; downright honest; straightforward; perfectly upright
(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody
more than anything; above all else
(attitude of) being ready to take on a challenge; can-do spirit
to participate in (as a member); to get involved in
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
item; commodity; list of articles
to twist a thread; to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability
food; food products; foodstuffs
freshly boiled (rice); freshly cooked; steaming; piping hot
dashi; Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
another helping; second helping; seconds; other paw!
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
to bolt down (food); to gulp down; to carry under the arm; to rake in; to rake towards one
to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to get angry; to snap
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
to build up one's strength; to get stronger; to give (someone) strength; to cheer (someone) up; to encourage (someone)
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity; (online) comment
merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience
unusual; uncommon; extraordinary; out of the ordinary; incomparable; serious
change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
emergency press conference; hastily called press conference; impromptu press conference
certain; sure; no doubt; reliable; dependable
well-known only to those in the know; well-known but to the few; well-known to a connoisseur
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
stage assistant dressed in black; stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
stage made of Japanese cypress (in noh, kabuki, etc.); the limelight; the big stage; the big time
to take action; to act; to rise (up); to rouse oneself
likely to do; liable to do; (quite) capable of doing; may (well) do; might do; could do
to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on; to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique