lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
genuine article; real thing; real deal
establishment; founding; organization; organisation
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
company president; manager; director
generation; lifetime; age
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
father-in-law; foster father; stepfather
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
Fukuoka (city, prefecture)
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
multi-unit apartments; apartment complex
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
slowly; quietly; steadily; soon; momentarily; before long
greeting; a fine thing to say
very; extremely; excessively
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
receiving in advance (e.g. wages, interest); taking before others; anticipation; being ahead of (e.g. the times); prefetch; anticipatory completion (i.e. finishing another's sentence)
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to
all present; all concerned; all of us
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
Paris Fashion Week; major fashion show, held twice yearly in Paris
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
work; business; company; study
community; circles; kingdom; erathem; field (electrical); border
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
usually; under usual circumstances
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me