leaving hospital; discharge from hospital
to accept; to receive; to agree
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
medical office (esp. in a hospital); doctor's office
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
just because; even if; even though
superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
till; to; concerning (an area of expertise); swearing by (one's sword, God, etc.)
extent; scope; sphere; range; span
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
to feel; to sense; to experience
as you see; as you can see
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
announcement of time; time signal; news report; newsletter
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
January; first month of the lunar calendar
seventeenth day of the month; seventeen days
Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)
the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (the epicenter was located on Awaji island)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
postwar period; period after Second World War
near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area