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Naoto

1

Souichirō

1

sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival

2

Tatebayashi

6

Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival

1

freelance journalist

2

to descend from heaven

1

aging society; ageing society

1

logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber

1

Madrid (Spain)

1

fake (staged) kidnapping

1

router

1

lesson one; first lesson

3

brush up (i.e. fine tune, polish up, revise)

1

copy cat

1

undetermined manner of death; suspicious death

1

senior superintendent; police inspector

1

video telephone; video call; video chat; skyping

1

corporate giant

1

house

2

nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging

1

high-rise apartment building; high-rise condominium; tower block

1

phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress

2

retirement from office

1

Police Headquarters

1

drowned body

1

retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation; command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; descent from heaven

4

share house

1

construction site

1

internal inspection

1

to carry a joke too far

1

police; polis (ancient Greek city state); -city

2

accounting department

1

outside the company

1

hi; yo

2

criminal case

1

clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood

4

presbyopia; age-related longsightedness; farsightedness

1

succession; successor

3

Setagayaku

1

telephone line

1

noble; lofty

27

it's worth it

1

construction company

1

individual of taste

4

baron

3

unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will

1

to make tea

1

ouch!; hot, hot, hot!; something hot; fire

1

inspector; supervisor

1