(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
remuneration; recompense; reward; toll
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast
mask; disguise; guise; mask
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)
arrival in Japan; coming to Japan; visit to Japan
power outage; electricity outage; blackout; failure of electricity supply
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
manipulation of information; spin
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
writing; entry (e.g. to a form); posting (e.g. to a blog)
interference; intervention; meddling
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill
joke; pun; jest; smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
to put away; to stow away; to tuck away; to hoard
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
concealment; suppression; hiding
word of mouth; comments written online (about a product, service, etc.); online reviews
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
major incident; major happening; big scandal
the big two...; two major...; two main...
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
to compete (with each other); to contend for; to vie for; to rival
intelligence or information network
just-harvested; something freshly harvested or gathered (usually produce)
dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum