public square; square; plaza; open space; clearing
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving unattended; neglecting; abandoning
vigilante group; neighborhood watch; self-defense group
to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
in any case; regardless; either way; since it makes no difference anyway (you might as well ...); since it won't change the outcome; if you are doing it regardless
immediately; right away; on the spot
bulletin board; display board; notice board; electronic bulletin board; BBS
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)
intelligence gathering; information gathering
to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible
having to be; must be; should be; ought to be
to explain; to preach; to advocate; to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with
many; a lot of; a great number of; numerous
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
to sell; to betray; to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.); to make (oneself) known; to establish (a reputation) for oneself; to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.)
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
what; so-and-so; such and such; what?; wait; well, well
ingredient; (raw) material; unprocessed timber; raw timber; subject matter; topic
party (social gathering); party (group of people participating in an activity, esp. mountain climbing); (political) party
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.)
so-and-so; who?; which people?
information; news; information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); informatics (as a subject)
means of making a living; source of income; bread and butter; livelihood
upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident