goldfish scooping; festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
yakisoba; fried noodles, usu. with vegetables and meat
takoyaki; octopus dumplings
standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods
to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)
name of store; trade name (esp. of a sole proprietorship); stage name (e.g. of actor)
spirits; excitement; tension; tension (mental strain); anxiety
rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity); soaring; skyrocketing; going through the roof
to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
comparatively; quite; rather
success; boom; being well-attended (of an event); prosperity
one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely
way; method; means; effect; result; worth
street stall; stand; booth
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
kanji (as opposed to kana); original form of a Chinese character (as opposed to a simplified or abbreviated form); Chinese character from which another Chinese character derives
difficult to ...; hard to ...
called; known as; that; to say
on and after; from ... onward; since
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
hey; yo; hi; come on; hey
festive mood; holiday mood; festive atmosphere
OK; okay; fine (without); not needed; unnecessary
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
right side; right-hand side
to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
ingredient; component; composition
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)