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back; rear; background; behind the scenes

1

background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)

1

place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama)

1

line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)

3

Oosaki Station

2

melody; chime

1

large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

4

small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland

2

circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral

2

very important point

1

to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate

4

Yoshio

5

similarly; same (idea); same (name)

2

these

1

enmity; grudge

1

apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

1

guess; conjecture

2

marriage proposal; marriage talks

1

after retirement

1

to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify

1

strike while the iron is hot

1

when; at what point

2

one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends

1

each other; one another

1

to change one's clothes

1

another time; again; over again; formally; especially; intentionally

2

police officer; policeman; constable

6

No Parking; Parking Prohibited; prohibition of parking; parking ban

1

licence; license; permit; certificate (of qualification)

4

seeing; looking at

1

demand note; dunning letter (note)

1

state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication

4

to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)

1

ho-ho

1

anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; (lit.) clothes on a packhorse driver

1

(one's) life

6

dazzling; radiant

1

lukewarm; tepid; lenient

1

with a view to marriage; with marriage in mind

1

sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid

4

to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed

4

therapy; treatment; remedy; cure

2

one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart

2

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

3

as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")

1

himself; he himself

2

self-consciousness; self-awareness

4

something like ...; something called ...

2

purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

2

pressure

3