commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
enterprise; business; company; corporation
entertainment (of guests; esp. in the corporate world); treating (to food and drinks); wining and dining
to divulge one's true feelings; to open one's heart
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
(one's) life is not in danger; not life-threatening
intensive; concentrated; focused
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
to keep one's mouth shut; to refuse to talk
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard
offender; criminal; culprit
performance of one's official duties
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
blameless; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless; perfect
seeing one off; farewell; escort
balcony; veranda; verandah; porch
whereabouts; place where one is; position; location
Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty
soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction
real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
behind with everything; too late; reactive
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
bureaucratic routine; red tape
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
clearing one's throat; cough
whole nation; whole land; whole country
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
underworld; underside of society
impossibly hard video game
either way; in any case; one way or another
attendance; presence; appearance
father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)