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secret; private; surreptitious

2

after a meal

2

underground website (often critical or containing unofficial information)

2

laconic; of few words; reticent; quiet

2

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

the person in question; the person themselves; said person

1

(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means

1

trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade

4

to telephone; to make a phone call

1

one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section

1

Hashizume

1

dark; blackish

1

plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit

2

clerk; office worker; office staff

1

dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered

1

programme; program; plans; arrangements

1

to finish; to get it over with; to settle; to pay back; to get along (without something); to make do with (without)

1

to quit one's job; to resign

1

to have a talk; to tell a story

2

Japanese spindle tree (Euonymus sieboldianus)

38

the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life

1

husband

1

bereavement; separation by death; loss

1

(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life

3

holding two or more positions concurrently

1

to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

1

fast food

1

the way one works; one's working manner

1

opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat

1

number of days (times) one has attended

1

after graduation

1

advancing to the next stage of education; going on to (high school, college, etc.)

2

means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull

1

one by one; in detail; minutely

1

report; information

1

hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

1

parent and child

2

educational institution; school; academy; campus

1

absolute

1

train window; car window

1

to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)

1

advance warning; previous notice; prior announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner

1

to hang low (over; of clouds, fog, etc.); (arch.) to seclude oneself (behind a curtain, blinds, etc.)

1

completely ordinary; plain; commonplace; everyday

1

country town; rural town

2

malicious; spiteful; vicious; shady and damp

1

miserable; wretched; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; sorrowful

1

abundant; plentiful; rich; wealthy; open (mind); relaxed

1

nearest; closest

1

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

1