(train) station attendant; station employee; station staff
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
route; way; course; directions
to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
to ask a high price; to overcharge
latest fashion; trend of the times
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
many; much; a great amount; (arch.) excessive amount
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
by return; (call or write back) without delay; lapel; cuff; going back; returning; chorus
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
please; somehow or other; one way or another
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
storehouse; warehouse; godown
to be erected; to be built
occupying forces (esp. of the Allies in Japan after World War II)
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
staying up all night; all-night vigil
can do nothing but (do); cannot help (doing) something
to burst into tears; to burst out crying; to begin to cry; to be moved to tears