daytime; during the day; Japan and China; Japanese-Chinese; Sino-Japanese
thank you (for your hard work); good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight
labour shortage; labor shortage; shortage of workers; shortage of hands
not going (well); not proceeding (as one wishes); bad; not good; hopeless; beyond hope
one bow; one salute; one greeting
to raise one's voice; to shout
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
decomposed body; decomposing corpse
large part; greater part; people in general; general public; mostly; for the most part
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround
heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; feeling exhausted; feeling drained
way one walks; one's walk
younger half-brother (by a different mother)
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite
to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
return; reversion; comeback; carriage return
attendee; participant; person present
total energy; all efforts
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)
common knowledge; well-known fact
old friend; old acquaintance
to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite
solitude; loneliness; isolation
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
minimum; lowest; minimal; at a minimum
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
man; male; masculine gender
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
(doing) together; one lump; one mixture; the same; identical; (at) the same time
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
village; human habitation; human settlement
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
correspondence; exchange of letters
trouble; difficulties; dispute; confusion; disorder; mess