to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after; to have lingering effects
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
on business; for business; business purpose
periodic; regular; routine
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
packing; packaging; face mask; face pack; puck
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network; ARPANET
flaw; defect; problem; inconvenient
making oneself conspicuous; pressing one's own cause
big craze; boom; popular trend; widespread contagion; large outbreak
great speed; recklessly fast speed
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
immunity; immunization; immunisation; being hardened (to); being unaffected (by); being accustomed (to)
acute stress reaction; acute stress disorder; psychological shock; mental shock; emotional shock; emotional trauma
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
quick; fast; rapid; swift; prompt; streamlined
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
first place; first rank; unit's position; Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960); significant breakthrough; great strides
to appear all together; to be all present
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
stirring up trouble in order to get credit for resolving it; profiting from solving problems created by oneself
of good character; kindhearted; good-natured
Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce
sales; selling; marketing
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
business; trade; operations; sales
public relations; PR; publicity; publicizing
snugly; neatly; compactly; cosily
along the road; at the side of the road
exposure to the sun; sunny place
to get slightly dirty (all over)