situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
person concerned; interested party; related party
easygoing; optimistic; conceited
retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking
incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical
failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
analysis; analytical study; parsing; parse
defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
to rub on; to rub against; to wipe on; to lay the blame on
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
conference room; council room
third day of the month; three days
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
(criminal) investigation headquarters
station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
suicide by throwing oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
Metropolitan Police Department (esp. Tokyo)
lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
useless employees (shunted off by a window to pass their remaining time until retirement)
central government office; head office; this office
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
police station with jurisdiction for a precinct, etc.; competent police station
special investigation headquarter
to cheer; to jeer; to mock
labour shortage; labor shortage; shortage of workers; shortage of hands
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
(police) detective; criminal matter
(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups