jpdb beta

to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)

2

foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

2

whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)

4

messy; untidy; disorderly; higgledy-piggledy

3

shelter; shield; hide

2

to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve

1

naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord

8

all means

1

to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

2

that night; that evening; over the course of the evening

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

1

man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend

3

residence; mansion

2

darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

2

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

1

to disappear; to vanish

1

Metropolitan Police Department (esp. Tokyo)

3

confused; chaotic; jumbled; upside-down

1

large-scale

2

search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.

2

(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future

2

ambassador

1

big man; large man; tall man; giant

1

imperial capital

1

middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

1

to miss (capturing); to fail to catch; to let slip

1

strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

1

match fixing; put-up job; fixed game

1

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2

sharpness; sharp weapon; blade; fine soldier

1

city

1

to shorten one's life

1

severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)

1

to hide; to conceal

2

finish; completion; the end

1

speaking about (one's thoughts, memories, etc.); relating (one's feelings, reminiscences, etc.); recollection; reminiscence

1

to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to

1

suspicion; jealousy

1

to make something bright; to shine; to polish

1

open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent

1

rudeness; impoliteness; discourtesy; insolence

2

matter; thing; affair; circumstance

1

must not; may not

1

Minister for Foreign Affairs

1

patience; forbearance; endurance; forgiveness; pardon

1

beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end

1

suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly

1

hardening; vulcanization; hardening (of attitude, stance, etc.); stiffening; upturn (in the market); firming up

1

secret; private; surreptitious

1

to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark

1