progress; pace; carriage; step; stage
plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
if there is a chance; if possible; if circumstances permit; if things go well; if luck is on my side
effect; efficacy; validity; potency
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
housing district; residential district
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
detached house; single house; single building; isolated house; house in isolated location
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
hand-to-hand fighting; grappling; scuffling
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
independent action; acting alone
to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound
finish; finishing; finishing touches
incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; good-for-nothing; loser; weakling
by today; before the day is over
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
template; run of the mill; formulaic
to do something by choice; to like; to be fond of
to push someone (towards); to encourage someone
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer
labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs
odious; hateful; awful; horrid; revolting
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
(pressing) hard; badgeringly; pesteringly; repeatedly; urgingly
to make a great fuss; to raise a hue and cry; to make an uproar; to clamour
to be finished; to be completed; to be done
everybody; every last one of them; all
season (period in which regulated games are played); season (division of the year); season (of a TV show, etc.); season (for doing something, e.g. ski season, entrance examination season)
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
founding a country; opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world; ending (a policy of) national seclusion
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market