designer (esp. haute couture, etc.)
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
construction; establishment
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
to say; to tell; to state; to do
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation
whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)
starting (construction) work
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
inhabitant; resident; citizen; population
negotiations; discussions; connection
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
right in the center (centre)
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
somewhere to go; place to go
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere