business trip; official trip
to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate
detective agency; enquiry agency
inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
circumference; perimeter; work outside the office; outer tracks (in a loop or curve)
flooring the gas pedal; pedal to the metal
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
splint; brace; epithesis; splice; support (e.g. for a plant); prop
hitting a dangerous (harmful) spot (e.g. hitting one's head)
area struck (by some disaster); location of a disaster
slightly injured person; slightly wounded person; person with minor injuries
person (patient) with minor illness; person showing only minor symptoms (of a disease)
treatment strategy; method of treatment; therapeutic approach
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
even if not; even without
classification; color coding; colour coding; color keying; colour keying; differentiation using different colors (colours)
diplomatic; diplomatically
to push aside; to push one's way through
to peel off and fall; to flake away
type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection
Hotei; Budai; god of contentment, depicted as a pot-bellied monk who carries a large cloth bag on his back
to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight
scrap wood; waste wood; waste; waste material; scrap material
decorative ceiling painting
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
town area; urban area; metropolitan area; built-up area
bungalow; one-story house
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
half-wit; fool; simpleton
with a burble; hollow (sounding); holey; full of holes or dents; here and there; (sound of) walking slowly
prime of one's working life
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
to visit one place after another without plan or effect; to gallivant about
to toady; to be obsequious