Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
Nagano (city, prefecture)
route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl
bento; Japanese box lunch
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
female friend; woman friend
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
with these words; while saying
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk
pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
as a child; when one was a child
colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
since then; from that time; ever since
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
meeting; assembly; gathering; congregation; convention; rally
reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin
electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking
after a long time; for the first time in a while
to accept; to receive; to agree
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to be honest; to be frank; honestly; if you want to know the truth
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
while; during; while; although; all; both