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There's a very interesting article on exactly this topic. My explanation below is a brief summary of said article.
https://okurukotoba.tokyo/archives/4120#:~:text=%E6%9C%80%E5%88%9D%E3%81%AB%E3%80%81%E3%80%8C%E5%90%8C%E3%81%98%E3%80%8D%E3%81%A8,%E3%81%9D%E3%81%AE%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A8%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E6%84%8F%E5%91%B3%E3%81%AF%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%...
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"Kitaku(帰宅)" literally means "to go home".
It may make viewers imagine that workers go home or that come to our office as your home.
If you want to know a cool Japanese phrase that means something like "return back to my roots, back to a safe place", I come up with the phrase "Gentenkaiki(原点回帰)".
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～的には is a way to say "～ly speaking, ...", "～-wise, ..." or "in terms of ～".
個人的には気にしていない。
Personally, I don't care.
金銭的には困っているが幸せだ。
I'm in trouble money-wise, but I'm happy.
世界的には大きな問題だ。
It's a big problem worldwide.
This type of 的 is just a suffix to turn a noun into a na-adjective (It's like '-(i)al' as in personal, ...
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はよ is a dialectal from of はやく (preserved in the standard language somewhat in お早う{おはよう}). The progression went はやく -> はやう -> はよう -> はよ. You'll see this kind of thing with other i-adjectives too, like よろしゅお願いします or よう聞け.
知らん！急いでるからはよ通せ。
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知らない！急いでいるから早く通せ。
I don't care! We're in a hurry, so let us through already.
(I say dialectal, but sometimes ...
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