support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
ingenious; skillful; clever; deft
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
to telephone; to make a phone call
to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
end; tip; extremities; terminal
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
one after another; in succession
evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail
you (plural); all of you; you all
unexpected meeting; coincidence
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
steamed bun shaped like a maple leaf
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
idling; lazing; slovenly; flirting; philandering; womanizing
to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
release; liberation; acquittal
any more; any further; any better; any longer
detention pending trial; confinement; custody
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to keep in contact (e.g. by phone, mail, etc.); to keep in touch
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
mass communication; mass media
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
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
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
if it is the case that ...
conclusive evidence; positive proof; definite proof; confirmation
counsel; defender; advocate
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
unpleasant; awkward; embarrassing; uneasy
things at hand; personal belongings
service (bus, train); operation; motion; revolution; movement