year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Metropolitan Police Department (Tokyo)
First Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating homicide, robbery, kidnapping, arson, and sexual assault
violent crime; violent offense; violent criminal; perpetrator of a violent crime
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
woman; female; feminine gender
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from ... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that ...; trying to ...
National Police Agency; NPA
becoming employed by a government office, agency, board, etc.
police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)
life; living; livelihood; (one's) living
lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Ministry of Public Security (China)
(personnel) change; transfer; relocation; reassignment; reshuffle
after that; afterwards; thereafter
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
record; document; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); setting (a record); recording (a record high, etc.)
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)