letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.
popular; well-liked; common; frequent; popular music; pop music
conveyor belt sushi; sushi-go-round; sushi train; kaiten-zushi
fat; tallow; lard; grease
melt-in-the-mouth feeling
scrap of cloth; odds and ends
kitchen waste; food scraps; raw garbage
environmentally friendly; eco-friendly
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
elementary particle; particle
Gulliver; preeminent example of its kind
basic principle; fundamental principle
school of pharmacy; department of pharmaceutical sciences
bamboo shoot; young, inexperienced doctor
bacterium; bacteria; germ
very strange; bizarre; weird; mysterious
(point of) similarity; resemblance
Japanese food; Japanese meal
native people; aboriginal; indigenous people
soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy
natto bacteria (Bacillus subtilis var. natto)
softish; relatively soft; somewhat soft; on the soft side
fashion sense; sense of fashion
woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
successor; replacement; second wife
class president; head class representative
playing to the gallery; grandstanding; ad hoc; haphazard; dress rehearsal
physical evidence; real evidence; material evidence
in a lively way; vividly; freshly; animatedly; actively; energetically
river management; river improvement; flood control
protector (e.g. chest); guard
measures to defend oneself (for self-defense) (defence)