Vocabulary

places alongside a railway line, bus route, major thoroughfare, etc.

exchange (of words, views, punches, cups, etc.); give-and-take

check

open sea

lower limit

insecticide; pesticide

grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket

adjournment

dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying

partition; division; boundary; compartment

instrumental quartet

officer

principle; aim; main purpose; central part; pillar

criminal condemned to death; convict on death row

the deceased; deaths; persons killed

private

touchstone (assaying tool)

trial and error

subtitles; captioning

bringing; taking; carrying

hourly pay; hourly wage

vending machine

one's own expense; out-of-pocket expense

illness; disease

izakaya; tavern, bar, etc. that also serves various dishes and snacks

marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish

training; instruction

mediation; good offices; go-between; intermediary; mediator; bridge (between)

tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction

vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot

militarism

official in charge

traces; evidence

system; lineage; group

pressurization; applying pressure (to)

song; singing

live coals (for firelighting)

overcrowding; congestion; overpopulation

answer; solution

reorganization; reorganisation