Vocabulary

Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)

Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

Sendai (city in Miyagi)

Chiba (city, prefecture)

Saitama (city, prefecture)

Shizuoka (city, prefecture)

Niigata (city, prefecture)

Hamamatsu (city)

small; little; few

(not) anywhere; nowhere

in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another

bill (at a restaurant); check

Atlas

indicates question

isn't it?; it really is

experience

beach sandals; flip-flops; thongs; pluggers; jandals

memo book; memo pad; notebook; notepad; scratchpad; scratch pad

dinner; evening meal

if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so

child one is expecting; child in one's womb

to try to do; to attempt to do

new wave

caramel (soft candy)

beans

power cable; power lead

not yet; un-

minister (of a government department)

Tenmangu shrine (shrine dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane's spirit)

does not seem; unlikely; improbable

low rates

final performance; swan song; last act

sedge (Cyperaceae spp., esp. members of genus Carex)

ecological; eco-

to paint a picture; to draw a picture

card game

amount of experience; experience level

elementary and middle school pupils

Italy

baby food