reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart
(staying) one night; overnight stay; overnight rental; per-night rental
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
forced march; (fig.) doing something on a very strict schedule
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
soundly (sleeping); fast (asleep)
to get the hang of; to learn the secret to
hair; fur; wool; down; plumage
belt (worn around the waist); (machine) belt; belt; zone
to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden
grilling on a skewer; spit-roasting
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
bed and food; eating and sleeping
sopping wet; dripping wet; sodden; drenched; soaked
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)
to wring the neck; to strangle
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
Moon; month; moonlight; (a) moon; natural satellite
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
line; queue; procession; matrix
waves that remain after the wind has subsided; after-effect; aftermath
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much