to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
firm; strong; unbending; unyielding; uncompromising; stubborn
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
to buy more (of something)
coercion; extortion; compulsion; force
underwear; undergarment; underclothes; lingerie
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
high class; high grade; high rank; seniority
(department) store; (department) stores
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
clothes; clothing; garments
to form a line; to queue up; to line up
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
crime of conscience; premeditated crime; act carried out while knowing that it should not be
evaluation criteria; evaluation standard
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile
import; importation; introduction; afferent
made in Japan; Japanese-made
quality (of a product or a service)
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
gorgeous; sumptuous; extravagant; luxurious
no!; no no!; no, not at all
buzz; hum; shake (with vigor); shaking
outrageous; reprehensible; rude; insolent; nefarious
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out