lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger
submersion; inundation; being flooded
evaporation; disappearance (of a person); vanishing without a trace
heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air
steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
to begin (doing); to start; to set about; to get down to
in turns; in series; in order; by rotation
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else
illustrated (with photographs)
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
wide-open; frank; open; candid
official; governmental; public (use, matter, forum, etc.); common; being public knowledge; being out in the open
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgement
to walk away; to saunter off
Shinjuku Ward; Shinjuku City
residing; living; dwelling
to wring the neck; to strangle
stark naked; completely naked; nude
accommodation charge; lodging charges; lodging fees
payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
generation of heat; (attack of) fever; pyrexia
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
every month; trite; commonplace; conventional
cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
to make a splash; to draw attention
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
worth; merit; value; good point; strong point; redeeming feature
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
the way one works; one's working manner
to cut corners; to be shoddy; to slack off; to play a tenuki; to tenuki
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
a few years ago; some years back
sense of values; values; value system
to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt