to miss a chance; to miss an opportunity
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
feeling; sensitivity; emotion
story; tale; legend; plot; storyline
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
to ask; to enquire; to query
dry; dry (tone, humour, etc.); unemotional; dry (of alcohol)
ward office; council (regional)
hole; hole (in golf); (golf) cup; (electron) hole
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
finding employment; getting a job
to drive on; to urge forward (e.g. cattle); to rouse (game from its cover); to press a tenant to leave; to evict
new graduate; recent graduate
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
last time; last inning; last part; final episode (of a television program)
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
serviced office space for rent
(Nintendo) (abbr) Famicom (Family Computer) (equiv: NES)
dawning (of a new era); dawn
being dotted with; being scattered
sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
mud wall with a roof; roofed mud wall
Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
pygmy waterlily (Nymphaea tetragona)
scientific name (of a species); binomial name; Latin name; academic reputation
Aries (constellation); the Ram
Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Singapore