the future; future prospects
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
alcohol; (alcohol-based) hand sanitizer
make-up; making food (in a delivery-only restaurant); cooking
willpower; energy; vitality
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
surname; family name; last name
nodding (in agreement, with approval, etc.); repeatedly nodding and dozing off; suddenly (dying); deep (flavor, flavour, color, colour, etc.); rich
to blow out; to spout out
bar; saloon; pub; tavern; drinking establishment
street; quarter; district; area
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line; to be equal to; to be on a par with
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
love hotel; short-stay hotel used primarily for sexual activities
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
detached house; single house; single building; isolated house; house in isolated location
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
five-storied; quintuplicate; fivefold
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
sharp (blade); pointed; sharp (pain); stabbing; perceptive; keen
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
lowness (of degree, value, etc.); inferiority; second volume (of two); third volume (of three)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
chisel; burin; graver; gad; jumper
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)