with a friendly grin; smilingly
humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
successive generations; successive emperors
Greenery Day (national holiday; May 4)
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
dangerous weapon; lethal weapon; deadly weapon; murder weapon
detection; sense (e.g. sensor)
irrefutable evidence; smoking gun; solid evidence; incontestable proof; dead giveaway
inspection; reading; perusal; browsing (the web)
job hunting; job searching
post-game analysis (go, chess, othello, etc.); post mortem
I am sorry (to hear, to say, etc.); a pity
to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor
constitution; rules; regulation
to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
unsanitary condition; lack of hygienic care; inattention to hygiene; unhygienic conditions
general meeting of stockholders
strange occurrence; unusual occurrence; unexpected occurrence; grave and unexpected occurrence
foreign voyage; travelling overseas; travelling abroad
severe earthquake; violent tremor
dubious document; anonymous document containing defamatory statements
must-see; not to be missed; a must
regarding as dangerous; identifying as a threat
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
entering the rainy season; beginning of the rainy season
amount of precipitation; precipitation
average year; normal year
defense; defence; protecting; preventing
conference room; council room
to gain experience; to get accustomed (with something)