office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
to lower one's voice; to speak more softly
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
don't worry about it; it's nothing; don't give it a thought
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
guardian; protector; patron; parent
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
to breathe while sleeping
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
that's true; of course; obviously
reduced scale; scaling down
terrain; geographical features; topography
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (2010-); Geographical Survey Institute (1949-2010)
to speak frankly; to put things bluntly
way; method; means; resource; course
probably isn't (doesn't, won't, etc.); don't (doesn't) intend to; intend not to; must not; (when used in an imperative sentence) don't
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
cash; ready money; money on hand; mercenary; self-interested; calculating
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
rough estimate; rough calculation; expectation; anticipation; plan
thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)
literature; books (reference); document
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
inference; deduction; induction; reasoning
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to dig through; to drill into; to excavate
location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; screentime
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
to satisfy the requirements
vehicle; conveyance; transport; ride (playground, fair, carnival); playground facility
logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel
to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.