locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
it is no use crying over spilt milk
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
aptitude; aptness; suitability
successful candidate; successful applicant; person who has passed an exam
living up to (one's, its) reputation
barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock
success or failure; result
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
cesspool; sink; manure sink
additional; extraordinary; outside the norms; special case
encroachment; invasion; erosion (e.g. of market share, rights); erosion; corrosion
newspaper; paper; counter for newspapers
unsuccessful candidate; rejected person
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
red eyes; bloodshot eyes; red-eye; red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus); facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
potentiality; dormancy; latency
(home) tutor; private tutor; private teacher
to sit for an examination
to strain (one's stomach); to bear down (during childbirth); to push down
act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery
social status; social position; social standing
by the rules; in accordance with the regulations
the number of flat things; win-loss difference which influences the ranking of wrestlers
preferential treatment; special treatment; different treatment; express delivery; special delivery
to ask (about); to inquire; to enquire; to question; to make sure of
shelving (a matter, plan, etc.); pigeonholing; tabling; keeping (goods) off the market (to adjust the supply-demand balance)
to coil around; to twine around; to cling (to); to follow around; to hang around
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
to astonish; to astound; to stupefy; to flabbergast; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound
daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
to dig down; to dig into (a matter); to delve into; to probe into
to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
belonging; ascription; attribution; reversion; return; restoration
information session; briefing; explanatory meeting
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryō system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa