present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
maintenance; preservation; improvement
popularity; esteem; reputation; confidence
prevention; precaution; protection against
obligation; duty; charge; responsibility
military personnel; soldier
on the occasion of; at the time of
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
command; lead; generalship; leadership
almost every day; almost daily
Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
infantry; infantryman; foot soldier
people from one's hometown
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
remote place; backcountry; the sticks; hinterland
cough; hawking; laughing and talking at the same time; speak laughing
ruin; wreck; mere skeleton; framework
only; merely; but; no more than
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
to hide; to keep to oneself
explanation; interpretation
to have an audience (with); to have an interview (with); to meet; to see
pole (north, south); climax; extreme (point)
to live together; to be close friends; (lit.) to eat out of the same pot
every other; second; alternate
(arch.) retainer; (arch.) attendant; Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight); I; me
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to use; to make use of; to utilize
management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting
to present; to offer; to dedicate