bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
downtown high-rise area; street of office buildings; area of medium to tall business buildings
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing
light; lamp; counter for electric lights
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
living thing; organism; creature; biology
valley; ravine; cleavage (of breasts); part or place that has been left behind; blind spot
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")
to harm; to hurt; to fail to do; to do amiss; to almost do; to come close to doing
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
car model; type of (wheeled) vehicle; vehicle classification
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
to flutter (e.g. a flag); to wave; to reverberate (e.g. thunder); to resound
existing alongside (each other); mixture; intermingling
to begin to dissolve; to start melting; to dissolve into (a liquid)
just one person; only one
end; finish; bound; limit; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
to live; to make a living; to get on with
deserted house; ruined house; abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
no matter what happens; in any circumstances; at any price
to fall into someone's hands; to pass into another's possession
to catch the eye; to attract attention
to turn over; to turn (pages); to leaf through (a book, etc.); to tear off; to strip off; to take off
what kind of; what sort of; what