jam-packed; packed in like sardines
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryo codes)
huge harvest (of the five grains); bumper crop; abundant crop
extremely rich person; multimillionaire; billionaire; daifugō; daihinmin; Japanese card game similar to President
neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)
hook (esp. for clothing); hook and eye; snap fastener; press stud; hock (white wine)
useless; waste of time and effort; pointless; vain efforts
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
ticket window; box office; ticket
unreserved seat; non-reserved seat
overhead luggage rack; overhead baggage rack
forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting
rattling; clattering; trembling; shivering; whining; grumbling
slapping on (stamp, sticker); flopping down
construction; constructing; carrying out; work; formation; workmanship
attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of
pump priming; cause; impetus; spark
physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics
disagreeable; unpleasant; adverse; unsympathetic
to turn left; to turn to the left
examination of tickets; ticket gate; ticket barrier
newspaper-seller; newsboy; newspaper vendor
interview (i.e. television, newspaper, etc.)
fabrication; put-up job; trumped-up story; frame-up; hoax
check; checkmate; stave off; control; restraint; inhibit