Vocabulary

highway patrol car

aerial work platform; elevating work platform; boom lift; bucket truck; cherry picker

soft candy

heavy rescue vehicle; rescue truck

worn-out; threadbare; timeworn; weathered; musty

emergency evacuation map; escape route plan; escape route map

parking stub; parking ticket

to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time

escape route; evacuation route

person who just tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; goldfish poop

mattress money

mattress money

a rolling stone gathers no moss

two heads are better than one; consult even with your knees

the morally upright have a hard time making friends; fish will not live in water that is (too) clean

merging car; car merging into a lane

default legal speed limit (in Japan, 60 km/h for cars on ordinary roads, 100 km/h on highways); national speed limit

loose stool; watery stool

wind music

arrangement of chapters; dividing into chapters

a little; a bit; slightly

by mutual agreement; by mutual consent

separate day; another day

song that sounds better the more one listens to it; song that grows on one over time

large-scale map; detailed map

small-scale map

was pretty; was beautiful; was clean

floorball; unihockey

floorball; unihockey

waterproofing (of a building); flashing; weathering

digging deeply (below the surface); mining deep

(more) experienced mother

induction heater; inductive heater; IH

induction heating; IH

egg-shaped glutinous rice ball (Heian, Kamakura periods); tray or container for serving rice balls

electrostatic induction

attention seeking; publicity seeking

great enthusiasm; high excitement

electrostatic induction

above-ground floor