railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
district of a town; city block (of irregular size)
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
intelligence gathering; information gathering
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
recital (i.e. of music, by a pupil); presentation (e.g. product launch)
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
in proportion to; just as much as
extravagant; lavish; opulent; luxurious; magnificent; splendid
there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows)
caster; newscaster; news anchor; anchorman
plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)
morning; morning coat; breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding
restoration; restitution; rehabilitation
weekend; Saturday and Sunday
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
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
so; like this; in this way
copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy
student (esp. a university student)
only; merely; but; no more than
composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization
to be able to manage somehow or another