it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
just as one thought; as usual; sure enough
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
continuation; succession; series
24 hours; twenty-four hours
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
noisily; clamorously; incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; loudly (crying); wailing
noisily (crowd of people talking); clamorously; in a hubbub; jabberingly; chatteringly; buzzingly
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
doctrine; rule; principle; -ism
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)
business; trade; operations; sales
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
roughly; approximately; (cutting) in one stroke; (breaking apart) with vigour; (cutting) deeply; (splitting) wide open
interest; eagerness; enthusiasm
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering
to rock; to shake; to swing
placid; composed; big hearted; broad-minded; great quantity (of something)
environment; circumstance
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)