business district; shopping district; bustling street; shopping centre; shopping center; downtown
division; section; demarcation; (traffic) lane; compartment; classification
real hair; one's own hair
tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt
last night; yesterday evening
throwing down; dropping; airdrop; investment
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
indictment; prosecution; complaint
looking coldly on; looking upon disapprovingly; frowning on
to collect (e.g. one's thoughts); to get in order
to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
on one hand; on the other hand
compassionate; merciful; benevolent; charitable; humane
slightly difficult; somewhat bothersome; troublesome; peevish; querulous
connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence
main purpose; primary objective
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
confusion; dismay; consternation; panic
chicken-hearted; lily-livered; cowardly
(walking with) one's toes turned out; duckfooted
striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
in confusion; in a fluster; in bewilderment; sobbing; tearfully; trembling (voice)
weather; climatic conditions; fine weather; clear day; situation; state of affairs
to overdo; to do too much
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
business district; office complex
one's company; company one works for; in-house; belonging to the company
power; authority; influence
boastful speech; bragging
goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit
modernization; modernisation
boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty); sexual position in which one person stands supporting the other
logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel
triumphant return; returning in triumph