Vocabulary

deceased grandfather; (one's) late grandfather

deceased wife; deceased lady

deceased mother; late mother

refugee; exile; displaced persons

deceased friend

onlooker; bystander

marginal notes

collateral family; subsidiary line; affiliate

looking on by an outsider

things overheard

supporting evidence; corroboration

bystander

underline; side line (equivalent to underlining in vertically written text)

admission ticket

observer; spectator (e.g. in court); (member of the) public; visitor; audience; gallery

visitor's gallery; seats for the public

admission free

admission fee

marks or dots written alongside a word to indicate stress or draw the reader's attention; emphasis mark

autopsy; necropsy

all over town

close-cropped hair; shaven head

obstacle

sabotage

saboteur

cap badge

memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake

ingratitude; thanklessness

trance; ecstasy; enthusiasm

forgetting the hardships of the old year

bedroom activity (of a married couple); sexual intercourse

roughneck

restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse

excessive drinking and eating; overeating and overdrinking

young motorcycle-riding delinquents; bōsōzoku

tyranny; atrocity; brutality

sense of nostalgia

certain country

a certain person; unnamed person; Mr. So-and-so; a certain someone who shall remain unnamed

certain place