mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better
electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking
something said for politeness' sake; diplomatic language; honeyed words; lip service; empty compliment
performance (of a duty); fulfillment (of a promise); fulfilment; execution (of a contract); discharge; implementation
tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
to hurl abuse (at); to use abusive language
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
to look away; to turn away
hating; strongly disliking
elimination (of a person, group, etc.); killing off; denial (of an opinion, fact, etc.); ignoring; erasure (of writing); rubbing out
one's just deserts; one's just desserts; one's just reward; what one deserves; comeuppance
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved
toast; congratulatory cup
shivering; trembling; shuddering; shaking
falling cherry blossoms; storm of falling cherry blossoms
to flutter down (of leaves, petals, etc.); to fall as if dancing
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
elevated walkway through the audience to the stage; honourable end to a career
brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter
big fan (of something or someone); great fan
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
sobbing; weeping; fit of crying
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
bunch of flowers; bouquet
all staff; all employees; all workers
to regain one's breath; to catch one's breath
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
to bring someone happiness; to make someone happy
living flesh; flesh and blood; living (human); raw (flesh, esp. fish)
to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
to slam into; to crash into; to run into; to face (trouble, difficulties, etc.); to confront
something like that; sort of like that; similar to that; in that vein
Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)
Ōmiya ward (in Saitama city); Ōmiya-ku
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)
route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)
to drive into; to ride into; to extend (a railway line, bus route, etc.) into; to link (a railway line) with; to join up with (a separate line)
one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
imperial palace; shrine; Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; elderly woman of imperial lineage
town originally built around a temple or shrine