snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
coffee shop; tearoom; coffee lounge; coffeehouse; cafe
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
squad leader; group leader; team leader
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
two times; twice; two degrees
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
family; members of a family
student (esp. a university student)
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
newspaper story (article, account)
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
fall; drop; descent; coming down
steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
materials; data; document
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
incredible; unbelievable; terrific; impressive
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude