conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover
therapeutic agent; remedy; medicine; drug; cure
to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)
watchdog; chaperone; watcher
valley; ravine; gorge; canyon
reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
falling out (with); quarrel; discord; estrangement; being on bad terms
medicine; drug; chemical (agent); chemicals
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
internal conditions; true state of affairs
person who is ignorant of the real world; (lit.) frog in a well
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; neglecting (e.g. one's studies); leaving unattended
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert; quarantine
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
address (of a home, business, etc.); residence; domicile
plus; addition; positive (number); plus sign; positive symbol; advantage; plus
(a person or body being) unidentifiable (unidentified)
neighboring prefectures; nearby prefectures
same; similar; (just) like; equal
Gifu Prefectural Police (abbr)
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
key person; important person
common; ordinary; fair (e.g. fight); gracious; frank; open
state of (mental) confusion (agitation)
strangling (to death); strangulation
in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another
to happen to hear; to overhear
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy
to take part in (usu. something bad); to be a party to; to have a hand in
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
relativity; relative; facing (e.g. a problem); confronting
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
boundary between villages
how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio
(smelling) strongly; pungently; angrily; furiously; indignantly
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
(water-filled) paddy field