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apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment

6

harmless but pointless; neither bad nor good

2

building maintenance

1

being at cross-purposes from the start; getting off on the wrong foot; (lit.) doing up one's buttons wrongly

1

change of job; change of occupation; career change

1

blue-collar (worker)

1

salary

1

standard of living

2

Central America

1

ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

8

conjugal relations; conjugal affection

1

harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble

3

spirit of self-denial

2

distributing board (panel); switchboard

1

ambition; aspiration

1

identification (with)

2

look; appearance; spectacle; sight; observation meditation; outlook on ...

2

real estate agent; realtor

1

identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin)

1

to play a central role; to take a leading part

4

object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami

1

hideout (e.g. of fugitive from justice); hiding place

6

should do; ought to do

8

assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)

44

bearer; carrier; person bearing responsibility; person in charge; supporter

2

natural voice (without a microphone)

6

death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)

2

post-mortem certificate

1

commotio cordis; cardiac concussion; concussion of the heart

2

cardiac arrest

1

one's last moment; one's death; one's end

6

dull; uninteresting; boring; drab

1

to give a name (to something)

2

sense of pain

8

lethal; fatal

5

to kill; to choke the life out of

1

killing by poisoning; killing with poison; poisoning (to death)

2

death by suffocation; death by choking

1

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

2

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

4

gunboat diplomacy

2

locked room; secret room

5

balance of power

1

basic policy; fundamental policy; fundamental plan of action

2

indispensable; essential; necessary

1

preparations; preliminary arrangements; spade work; mise en place; groundwork

5

anywhere

5

beyond help; past salvation; incorrigible; irredeemable

1

to press alcohol on someone; to urge someone to drink; to offer alcohol to someone

1

resident in Japan (of a foreigner); situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy); Zainichi; Zainichi Korean; North or South Korean national with permanent residency in Japan (who came to the country before 1945, or a descendant of such a person)

2