station; office; guardroom
appearance; presence; attendance; surrender (e.g. to the police); turning oneself in
executives; top management; governing body
order; directive; instructions; command
accomplishment; execution
peace preservation; security; safety
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
removal (of a building, equipment, etc.); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (a stage set, camp, etc.); withdrawal (of troops); pulling out; evacuation
duty; function; office; mission; task; role
prompt; immediate; in real time
lofty; sublime; noble; the sublime (aesthetics)
sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation
staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock)
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
favorite (to win); favourite; one's heart's desire; first choice; chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment
rubbing one's hands together
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
business; work; operations; service; duties
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
chores; odd jobs; miscellaneous affairs; miscellaneous expenses
to move around; to move about; to get around
lacking talent; lacking accomplishments
having no hobbies; lacking interests; humdrum; tasteless; prosaic; vulgar
having various interests; wide range of interests
rakugo research society; rakugo research club
information; experience; observation; seeing and hearing
mysterious thief; phantom thief
cattail pollen (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
to crack a joke; to tell a joke
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
no!; no no!; no, not at all
accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
to feel like an idiot; to make a fool of yourself
experiential; empirical; experimental
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
encouragement; spurring (on); cheering (on)