office romance; office love affair
to bend; to flutter; to wave; to yield to; to be swayed by; to bow to
to persuade; to prevail upon; to win a woman's heart; to win over; to talk someone into doing
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc); to be extremely (e.g. busy); to exhaust completely; to have nothing left (e.g. to say)
principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders
business trip; official trip
pitch black; completely black
furious facial expression
karōshi; death from overwork
head over heels; headlong; head first
dead end; tragic ending (e.g. of film)
trip abroad; overseas travel
time of emergency; (in an) emergency
purpose for which money is spent; the way money is spent; how goods are used
taking over (another's debt, work); shouldering someone else's burden; subrogation
early winter; tenth month of the lunar calendar
direct; honest; frank; easygoing; lighthearted; night duty
two sheets (of paper or other flat objects)
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
tram; streetcar; trolley; tramcar
within the borders of a country; domestic soil; inland; interior; Japan proper (as opposed to its overseas colonies); homeland
hoot hoot; tu-whit tu-whoo; oh!; I see; huh!
first snow (of the season); first snowfall
one sweep (of the eye); sweeping view; unbroken view
to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent; to resonate clearly (e.g. voice); to become serene; to become tranquil; to pronounce as an unvoiced sound
wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn, restaurant, or shop); landlady; hostess; mistress; female innkeeper
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
thank you very much; I'm sorry; excuse me
to grab hold of; to catch
front (aspect, weather, war-front, etc.); reception (e.g. in a hotel); front desk; front office; team management
legless chair (used in a room with tatami flooring)
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings