senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
new rice; first rice crop of the year; novice; beginner; newcomer
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place
to be needed; to be wanted
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
lucky; nice!; score!; bingo!
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain
laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
to fall flat; to collapse in a heap
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
drive; trip by car; to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car; to drive (e.g. a car); to drive (innovation, change, etc.)
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
110 (police emergency telephone number in Japan)
person who notifies the police; informer; whistleblower; delator
patrolling; one's rounds; inspection tour; watchman; patrolman
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
hurrying (to somewhere); rushing; hastening; express (train)
goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark
automatic; intransitive verb
in the mountains; among the mountains
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas pedal
to smoke (a cigarette); to behave as ...; to accelerate; to rev up
speculation; thinking; meditation
situated deep in the mountains
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)
to lay aside; to set aside
useless; vain; aimless; idle