spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
bringing up to date; progress
bell with wooden clapper; leader; guide (of the public)
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
towering (as mountains do); of outstanding greatness (as a person)
standing tall; towering; soaring
unfortunately; unluckily; regrettably
excess; surplus; superabundance
government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation
to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
polite; courteous; civil; friendship; (sexual) intimacy
indignant; sorrowful; steadfast; determined
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity
private; non-governmental; non-official; folk; popular
enterprising man; businessman; industrialist
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
the same place; that place
self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs
transcendency; detachment
railroad corporation; railway company
afterglow; lingering light
engineering works; civil engineering; public works
interested person; volunteer; supporter
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
business; trade; operations; sales
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
three metropolitan prefectures (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka)
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of