choice; selection; pickup (phonograph); stylus bar; pickup truck; pickup
hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains
inside; interior; inner part
prime location (for offices, housing, etc.); best district (in town); excellent piece of land
condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
appointed day of delivery; time for payment
quality (of a product or a service)
tedious talk; impertinent talk; repetitious talk; saucy speech; pretentious statement
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance; tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence
funny story; funny anecdote
spreading around (news, etc.); talking about widely; noising about; circulating
slip of the tongue; misstatement; verbal slip-up
craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
work-to-rule; go-slow strike; slowdown; being idle; slackening; being truant
reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
trash house; house overflowing with garbage from hoarding
unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable
city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis
in plain words; in plain terms; put simply
company president; manager; director
(your) daughter; young woman
bringing up (one's daughter) like a princess
such; like that; in that way
to throw one's weight around; to exercise one's authority; to make one's presence felt
for better or worse; luckily or unluckily
to happen to have on hand or in stock
beyond imagination; unimaginable
cardboard box; carton; corrugated box
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something
to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it