forerunner; precursor; pioneer; outrider; outriding
post-war recovery; post-war reconstruction
urbanization; urbanisation
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)
promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)
the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (the epicenter was located on Awaji island)
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
customary; conventional; traditional; usual
to become settled; to be fixed
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
materials; data; document
choreography; dance composition; dance coaching
beauty of style; beauty of form
point in question (at issue)
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
to prosper; to flourish; to thrive; to become popular; to become widespread
women's liberation; emancipation of women
to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
impure; adulterated; foul; mixed; dishonest
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
love triangle; eternal triangle
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)