... years old; age (of) ...
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
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 raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
home area; home town; local
young motorcycle-riding delinquents; bōsōzoku
company; lot; people; troupe; company (of musicians)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to resort to violence; to behave violently; to use force
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
face; visage; look; (facial) expression; honor (honour); face; influence
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
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.)
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
leader; leaders; dotted line; reader (textbook); reader (i.e. a person who reads); microreader
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
motorcycle; motorbike; bike; bicycle
to rev (up) an engine; to race an engine
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to settle a matter; to get even with someone
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
spy; special agent; covert operative