(talk of a) moneymaking scheme; moneymaking idea; get-rich-quick proposal
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
director of a district (ritsuryo system)
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
deep-fried food (esp. chicken)
full-course dinner; multicourse meal
sparsely eating; having a small appetite
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to; equal to
from here; from this place
source of revenue; financial supporter
bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat
flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; current of the times; trend of the times
blood relationship; blood relations; being genetically related
system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)
to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke
bringing up; rearing; upbringing
(of a woman) divorcing and moving back in with her parents; (of an employee) leaving a position only to return to it later; (of a ship) leaving from and returning to the same port
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
under-the-table payoff; offer of an illegal profit
hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky
prejudice; bias; distorted view
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
service (bus, train); operation; motion; revolution; movement
laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
vessel; ship; shipping; seacraft
surface mail (ship); sea mail; ferry service; steamer service
employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
protective instinct; defensive instinct