company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
travel; trip; journey; excursion; tour
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
tool; implement; means; furniture
to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...
to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest
texture (e.g. skin, fabric); grain (e.g. wood); detail
Aomori (city, prefecture)
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to be separated; to be apart; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
to pass (of time); to elapse
postcard; memo; note; card
busy; hectic; frantic; restless; hurried; fidgety
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
death; mortality; to die; to pass away
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
to meet someone's requirements; to meet expectations; to go along with what somebody wants
convenience; accommodation; advantage; benefit; expediency
difficult to ...; hard to ...
your husband; her husband