town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)
to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)
and; thereupon; because of that
moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
deposit; payment; money received; money due
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle
trembling; getting nervous; excited; thrilled
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
paid vacation; paid holiday
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
Kasumigaseki; district of Tokyo where most of Japan's government ministry offices are located; government ministries (of Japan); Japanese government bureaucracy
telephone call; telephone (device)
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
intimidating air; sense of intimidation
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
wholehearted; earnest; determined; intent; single-minded; straightforward
careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
meeting together; introduction; costarring; appearing together; being matched; facing off
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
even if; even though; even; too; whether ... or ...; no matter (what, where, who, etc.)