top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
good; goodness; right; virtue
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
Niigata (city, prefecture)
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
conference; council; convention
to be able to manage somehow or another
political measures; policy
computerized tomography; CT
large intestine; large bowel; colon
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
health management; health maintenance; health care
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
former (incumbent); predecessor
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly
to be flexible; to be accommodating
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
don't worry; there's no need to worry
un-; non-; negative prefix
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane); drawing room
no vacancy; full occupancy
wedding reception banquet
to be crowded (with); to be packed; to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with)
live (esp. concert, show, etc.); live performance; alive
atrium; well (in building); blow-by; blow-bye; drafty; draughty
to be within others' sight; to be visible; to be conspicuous; to attract public attention; to come under observation
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth
to be stubborn; to be obstinate; to be perverse; to not give in
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself