working one's way up; self-made person; veteran
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
shoe sore; foot blister (caused by shoes)
nearsightedness; shortsightedness; myopia
out of one's league; facing a too tough opponent; outclassed
to peel off; to come off; to be taken off
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
second month of the lunar calendar
it can't be helped; so it goes; c'est la vie
Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower
unrequited love; one-sided love
what the?; what's going on?; what's this?
sit down; sit up; Sit! (to a dog)
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
false charge; false accusation; misrepresentation
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to divulge one's true feelings; to open one's heart
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
Metropolitan Police Department (esp. Tokyo)
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
to commit a crime; to commit a sin
himself; yourself; herself
smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable
dangling heavily; swaying to and fro; strolling; rambling; idly; lazily
closely (packed, lined up, etc.); tightly; densely; (work) sufficiently
death penalty; capital punishment