roasting (e.g. of coffee)
over-optimistic calculation; counting one's chickens before they're hatched
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad); (arch.) temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
filial piety; showing devotion (to someone)
under investigation; under consideration; under review; pending (decision, etc.); awaiting verification
removal; taking away; dismantling (a building, facilities, etc.); withdrawal (of troops)
full of ingredients; hearty; substantial
salty yakisoba (without sauce)
salt and pepper; seasoning with salt and pepper
to re-tailor; to have altered; to remake (clothing); to renovate
iron plate; steel plate; sure thing; certain winner
large serving; large portion
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
accommodation facility (e.g. hotel); lodging facility; boarding house
occupation; calling; livelihood
schedule; program; programme; agenda
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)
selling out; being sold out
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
outsider; layman; amateur
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
(after) bouncing around from one place to the next
to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)
attention; giving one's attention; focusing
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
to play accompaniment; to keep time; to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock
high and low speed; fast and slow; lenience and severity; emergency; crisis
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
wood; lumber; (raw) material; stuff; talent; ability
increase in population; population growth
earnings; proceeds; returns; revenue
and (so); (and) then; because of which; in addition to that
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
point worthy of note; good point; part worth seeing; (signs of) promise; good prospects (for the future)
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile