school principal; school headmaster; school headmistress
upper floor; upstairs; top of the stairs
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
succession to another's professional name
courtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look
student's handbook; small notebook that also acts as a student ID
meeting; greeting; welcome
blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
dark (color); concentrated; thick
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
personal security; personal protection; provision of a bodyguard
private car; personal car
turning by hand; hand-turned; hand-cranked; preparations; arrangements
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
pointed knife; logging; cutting; (beef) scraps; starting to speak; extraction (of a portion of a media file)
after; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post
without warning or notice
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
to think; to use one's head; to exercise one's brains
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)
superior; excellent; fine
management task; administrative task
no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; (lit.) one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness
fabrication; forgery; falsehood; hoax