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 (esp. Tokyo)
search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
forcing; enforcement; forced; enforced
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
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; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
woman; female; feminine gender
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
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...
becoming employed by a government office, agency, board, etc.
police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
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); Special Branch (police); Ministry of Public Security (China)
change (personnel); transfer; 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; and then
(period of) a year; during an era
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
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; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document