diligent; earnest; attentive to detail; brisk (working, moving); frequent (e.g. checking)
intelligence gathering; information gathering
notice; notification; announcement; disclosure; declaration
to put up (a notice); to post
notice; bulletin; post; posting; placard
chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook; area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board
difference; disparity; gap
information; experience; observation; seeing and hearing
occupation; calling; livelihood
(not) very; (not) so; (not) very much; (not) particularly; (not) especially
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition
export; exportation; efferent
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
decrease; reduction; decline
surging crowd; wave of humanity; stampede
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
opposite side; other side; over there; ahead; destination; there (somewhere distant, esp. abroad)
making frequent appearances; appearing often; appearing and disappearing
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
carefully; closely; very; extremely; have no choice; cannot be helped
if you think about it; come to think of it
armory; armoury; ordnance department
devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding
annoyance (to); bane (of); constant worry (to)
dripping with sweat; doing something by the sweat of one's brow
imagination; supposition; guess
to go by; to cross; to pass by; to flash across
one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre
corner; nook; recess; downstage right (on a noh stage)
to have the memory of having done something oneself
eyewitness report; eyewitness information
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in
dubious tale; cock-and-bull story; questionable information
confidence; trust; faith; credit
half joking; being (only) half serious; (in a) jocular vein