breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
performance (as opposed to practice); going before an audience or on-air; game; match; high of the season; height (of summer, etc.)
retainer; attendant; escort
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
to change the subject (e.g. away from something awkward or inconvenient)
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
somehow; somewhat; seemingly
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
to start; to start up; to embark on; to get going; to commence
planning; planning ability; deliberateness
to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation
offender; criminal; culprit
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
to flare up; to fly into a rage
my goodness!; good lord!; holy cow!
if; in case; supposing; worst (case); unexpected (occurence); unforeseen
rational; reasonable; logical
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
tearjerker; sob story; maudlin tale
taking the extenuating circumstances into consideration
space; room; unused land; room (for reconsideration, doubt, etc.); leeway; margin
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
shady; underhanded; questionable
decision; settlement; confirmation; establishment
(volcanic) crater; caldera; burner (of a boiler)
serious look (on one's face); straight face
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
to arrange not to contradict each other
to make a fuss over; to pamper; to spoil; to indulge; to flatter (with attention)
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
another dimension; different level; whole other level
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)