transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
bond; bill; certificate; security
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by
career track; promotional track; fast track; upward mobility
finally; after; following; at the end (of)
Japan and Britain; Japanese-British; Anglo-Japanese; Japanese-English (translation, interpretation, etc.)
Japanese (language) version, edition
knowing; (an) acquaintance
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
dozens; scores of; decades
Japanese person; Japanese people
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
rational; reasonable; logical
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on
structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
(power) transformer; trance; trans
person concerned; interested party; related party
ambitious; motivated; willful
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
Nagano prefecture (Chūbu area)
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
metamorphosis; disguise; transformation; shapeshifting; morphing
side effect; adverse reaction
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)