Chiba prefecture (Kanto area)
play; recreation; play (theatre); performance; staging; praying
grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
that is to say; so that means
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
reality; actuality; hard fact
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
it's been a long time; long time no see
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging
attendance; presence; appearance
branch manager; manager of a branch office
familiarity with the land; locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
autopsy; inquest; investigation of death
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
vomit; vomitus; vomited matter
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); clearing an abacus
(crime of) abandonment of a corpse; abandoning a dead body
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)