company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
cooperation; collaboration
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
regular customer; regular patron; frequenter; constant companion
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
contract; compact; agreement
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
chancy trade or business with uncertain profitability; night entertainment business (e.g. hostess bar); nightlife business
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve
to take back; to regain; to get back; to recover
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
almost every day; almost daily
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case
attendance; participation; presence
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry
seeing one off; farewell; escort
atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere
how; in what way; by what means
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)