clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
Nagasaki (city, prefecture)
castella (type of sponge cake)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
Okayama (city, prefecture)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama); millet dumplings
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
ding (of a bell); bing; honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort; heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
yatsuhashi; cinnamon-seasoned rice flour cracknel (local delicacy in Kyoto); zigzag bridge
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
person who prefers sweet things to alcoholic drinks; person with a sweet tooth
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
police; police officer; police station
detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
than; from; out of; except; but; more
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
by any chance; (should) it happen (that); by some chance
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk
to unite; to join; to do together; to confuse with
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
diligent study; devoting oneself to one's studies
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state