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Hiroo

1

cigarette; cigar

1

chief superintendent (police)

1

Takaaki

1

great and splendid land (of Yamato); spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home; excellent location; splendid place

3

suspect

1

one's habitual practice; usual measure; old trick

1

hard-to-use space (in an apartment, etc.); dead space (artillery, etc.); (respiratory) dead space

1

retirement at one's own request

1

beginning of the year; the oldest person

1

pushing forward (undaunted, bravely); working vigorously towards an aim; struggling on; striving towards

1

gold watch

4

to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; (lit.) to twist a baby's arm

1

serving tea (esp. at a company); tea server; tea lady

1

inspection (esp. of a document); stamp of approval (for a document)

1

posthumous Buddhist name

1

emergency deployment (police, etc.); emergency posting

1

A1; top class; best quality goods

1

rich person; wealthy person; taking good care of things; keeping things for a long time and taking care of them

1

foreign-made car; imported car; paddle wheel

1

copycat criminal; copycat crime

1

back-alley doctor

2

Kumiko

2

working one's way up; self-made person; veteran

1

orphanage; children's home; foster home

1

acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

1

winter clothes

2

concealment; suppression; hiding

1

neglect of one's health; unhealthy living; intemperance

1

in flagrante delicto arrest; arrest of somebody in the act of committing a crime

1

large hospital; major hospital

1

prestigious school

1

eagerly; earnestly; assiduously; diligently; wholeheartedly

1

uncooperative; unhelpful

1

gunshot wound

1

to defy; to disobey; to rebel against; to oppose; to resist

1

to conceal (oneself); to hide; to abscond; to deceive; to dissemble; to fool

1

uroboros; ouroboros (image of a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail)

1

inspector; supervisor

2

leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

2

member (esp. of a criminal organization); gang member; gangster; yakuza; crime syndicate member

1

postoperative; after surgery

1

ward office; council (regional)

1

small and medium-sized enterprises; small and medium-sized businesses

1

full responsibility

1

one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point

1

murder case

1

starting up (e.g. business, computer)

1

tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes

1

to get on; to climb on

1