black-market lending; illegal loan
trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
debt collector; bill collector
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
(member of the) yakuza; gangster; hoodlum; racketeer; useless; worthless
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
to do one good; to be beneficial; to be good for the body or mind; to put oneself in the place of ...; to put oneself in (someone's) shoes
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
at that time; in those days
control; management (e.g. of a business)
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
to come off (of a button, handle, lid, etc.); to go away (of a fever, pain, swelling, etc.); to disappear; to be harvested; to be picked; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
license; licence; permission; driver's license
obtaining (a qualification, right, object, etc.); acquisition (of land, property, etc.); gaining possession (of); getting; purchase
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
top university; leading university; first-rate university
advancing to the next stage of education; going on to (high school, college, etc.)
privileged path to high status (e.g. in business, education, etc.); fast track to success; road to success
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
being in charge of (esp. a class or subject); taking charge of; class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher
man; male; masculine gender
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
suffix for room numbers; suffix for apartment numbers
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
to lock (a door, etc.); to lock up
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
to run away; to flee; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to win without being overtaken; to hold off the other contenders (until the finish)
idiot; moron; stupid; foolish; trivial; insignificant; malfunctioning
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
to feign ignorance; to evade one's responsibilities; to slip away; to abscond
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to beat to death; to club to death; to kill