intelligence gathering; information gathering
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched
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)
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
of course; certainly; naturally
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
special; particular; peculiar; unique
spy; agent provocateur; covert operative; maker; builder; constructor
training; education; development; cultivation
to find out; to discover; to locate
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
beginning; clue; starting point
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
manager; controller; chief treasurer; boss (of a gambling den)
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable
to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
subcontract; subcontractor (person or company)
very likely; very probable
something; some kind of; for some reason
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
in search of; in order to look for
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
cooperation; collaboration
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
going side-by-side; going abreast; running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays