number one; first; best; most; game; round
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
to make oneself popular without any regard to others; to take all the credit to oneself; (lit.) to turn out well (of a child)
to talk; to chat; to chatter
to be prolonged; to drag on
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
the way back; the way home; return trip
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
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
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
sudden impulse; passing fancy
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
don't you think?; indicates question
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
tension; mental strain; nervousness
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
police; police officer; police station
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that