beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); graceful; upright; righteous; (arch.) unspoiled (scenery, etc.); (arch.) pure
to value; to prize; to esteem; to respect; to honour; to honor
cherry tree; cherry blossom; light pink; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
diagnosis and treatment; medical care
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to accuse someone; to charge someone
terminal care; end-of-life care
protection; defence; support; safeguarding; championship; vindication
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
close friendship; close friend; good friend; intimate relations; sexual intercourse; sex
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
evolution; evolution; becoming more advanced; progress
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
coming to a head; coming to the surface; becoming an issue; breaking
manipulation of public opinion
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
brewing; fermenting; arousing; causing; creating
one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
present (brought by a visitor); gift
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
to notice; to realize; to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to regain consciousness; to come to (one's senses)
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk; to get plastered
(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
spewing; gushing; spouting; eruption; effusion
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
to take responsibility (for a fallout); to accept the blame; to take the blame
latest; newest; late-breaking (news)
important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
one's last moment; one's death; one's end