scale; scope; plan; structure
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
powerful person; influential person
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
constitutional; relating to character, structure, nature, etc.
government worker; public servant; civil servant
private; non-governmental; non-official; folk; popular
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
well then ...; in that situation; in which case
representative; exemplary; model
express home delivery (by the Kuroneko Yamato company); door-to-door parcel delivery; courier service
second generation; second; junior
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
cut end; edge (of a page, etc.); small amount; small quantity; beginning; clue
express home delivery service; express home delivery parcel (box, etc.)
to have an eye on; to zero in on
achievement; performance; results; work; contribution
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
company fortunes; future of a company
neck; bottleneck; obstruction; neckline
transport; transportation
regulation; (traffic) policing; control; restriction
transport; freight; shipping
route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
license; permit; licence; certificate
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
south side of a mountain; Sanyo district
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
Fukuoka (city, prefecture)
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
application; request; petition
person in the same line of business; people in the same trade; the trade; the profession