traditional craft; traditional handicrafts
to collect the best; to put together the cream of the crop
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
molding; moulding; shaping; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
cancellation; rescinding; release; calling off; lifting (sanctions); delisting
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
treasure house; storage for valuable property
dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction
friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy
fate; destiny; predestination
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
pleasant feeling; good feeling
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
to be aware of; to know about; to be concerned in; to have to do with
correction; revision; amendment
to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
counter for birds, rabbits, etc.
A common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, famous for being the centre of modern Japanese popular culture and a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods.
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
number of long thin objects (movies, TV programs, baseball games, etc.) (programmes)
commuter town; bedroom community; dormitory town
on closer reflection; on second thought; come to think of it; actually
modern person; people of today
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
formal marriage interview
application; entry; request; subscription; offer; proposal
technological development
dagger; stiletto; confidant; right-hand man
additional; extraordinary; outside the norms; special case
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
curious onlookers; rubbernecks