wind direction; situation; way things are going; mood; temper
dustbin of history; ash heap of history; obscurity; long-forgotten memory
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
unfazed; stone-faced; unflinching; perfectly calm
straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly
I've got to be going; I must go
underworld; underside of society
to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
smuggling; contraband trade
drug deal; drug dealing; drug trafficking; drug trade
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
to differentiate; to segregate
crime syndicate; criminal syndicate
to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of
full view; total picture; whole story; full particulars; all the details
accomplice; co-conspirator
indictment; prosecution; complaint
inquiry; enquiry; hearing
administration of justice; judicature
such; this sort of; like this
censure; denunciation; (verbal) attack; blaming
distribution channel; channel of distribution
inveiglement; cajolement; wheedling; enticement
gate guard (during the ritsuryō system); gate guardian; young forced labour (ritsuryō system)
symptomatic therapy; allopathy; makeshift solution; stopgap measures; temporary expedient
to reach out (for); to extend one's reach (towards); to set one's sights (on); to work towards (getting, becoming, etc.); to put out a feeler; (lit.) to extend one's tentacles
tinnitus; ringing in the ears
alley; alleyway; path through a gate or garden; teahouse garden
to take on a role; to take part
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; (arch.) small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
rag; old cloth; tattered clothes; ragged clothes; fault (one is trying to hide); defect
weather-beaten; bleached skull
to stop raining or snowing
to be dripping wet; to get drenched to the skin
to take away; to carry off