Vocabulary

taking up a post away from one's family; job transfer without one's family; living apart from one's family for the sake of one's job; unaccompanied posting

exploration party; expedition team

birthday

uchiwa; type of traditional Japanese handheld fan

(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house

paragraph

news; word; tidings; notice; notification; information

global warming

inside; interior

Chinatown

Chinese cooking; Chinese food

Chinese (language)

reconciliation; making up (with); making peace (with); being friends again; patching up a quarrel

outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits

long sleeves

long talk

right beside; close to; nearby

shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes); shitake

pursuer; pursuing party; posse

additional fee; extra charge

postscript; post scriptum; PS; P.S.

street; road; avenue; thoroughfare

coherence; consistency

toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.

toothpick

razor

photographer

ejaculation

person

(one's) master; (one's) employer; (one's) lord

head (of a household, etc.); leader; master

worth; merit; value; good point; strong point; redeeming feature

feeling in the hands (when striking, poking, etc.); (feeling of) resistance

seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kernel; stone (e.g. of a peach)

the defensive

curse; spell; malediction

autumnal equinox; autumn equinox; fall equinox

weekly (publication); weekly magazine; weekly journal

filling (up); replenishing; filling in (a tooth); loading (a gun with ammunition, a camera with film, etc.); packing; plugging

November