effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
police; police officer; police station
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
male-dominated society; patriarchal society
type; pattern; model; epitome; exemplar; archetype
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
central government office; head office; this office
remarkable ability; mastery; brilliant technique; go-getter; resourceful person; wizard
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
stakeout; ambush; lookout; watch; paste-up; collage
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
it is, isn't it?; I know, right?; innit?
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
something unrelated (to what has been discussed thus far)
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
part-time job; side job; part-time worker; albite
honest; respectable; respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.); person in a respectable occupation
name; given name; first name
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)
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
sense of values; values; value system
difference; discrepancy; variation
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded
character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)