name (esp. on a deed, contract, etc.); moral duty; justification; pretext
to live; to reside; to inhabit
shop; small store; business; firm
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
daily necessities; everyday goods
privately run store; one-man business; mom-and-pop store
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at
(personal) guarantor; (personal) surety; person providing a character reference
to look away; to avert one's eyes
mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
confusion; distraction; derangement
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
to float; to save (on one's expenses); to scrimp; to half-rise, e.g. to one's feet
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
to listen again; to ask again
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
to be born; to come into this world
opening a business; opening a practice
license; permit; licence; certificate
pharmacy; drugstore; chemist's (shop); hospital pharmacy; dispensary
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
at that (very) moment; just then
rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)
to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
someone who studies very hard (at school); grind; swot; studying hard; cramming; swotting