impossible; unlikely; improbable
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
purity; homogeneity; unadorned
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (name of a publishing company)
multiplication table; times table
compilation; editing; recording
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
row of houses; each house; every house; every door
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
boom; rage; fad; boom; cross-arm
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
land east of China; Japan
difficult to obtain; difficult to get
reissue; putting back in print
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
hit (film, song, book, etc.); bestseller; blockbuster
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
(the art of) storytelling
dozens; scores of; decades
(period of) a year; during an era
astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful
society; the world; the times