recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)
back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary
awning (over window, doorway); eaves (of roof); narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building; visor (of a cap); brim; classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
wind and string instruments; music
musical composition; tune
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
this is why; this means; it is the case that
synthesis; coordination; putting together; comprehensive
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure
disciplinary measures; (judicial) sanctions
all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
intellectual disability; mental disability
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
livelihood protection; public assistance; welfare
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
to project; to stand out; to jut out; to go somewhere (e.g. for work); to proceed to; to leave for
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
cross; crossing; intersecting; cross (soccer)
(the police) wanting (someone) for questioning; having (someone) on the wanted list
freedom; free man; free woman
infringement (of a law, treaty, etc.); contravention; conflict (with a theory, claim, etc.); inconsistency; (arch.) collision; (arch.) contact
first of all; in the first place; to begin with; for starters
traffic light; signalling mechanism; semaphore (apparatus)
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive