10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
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
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
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
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
branch office; branch store
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
headquarters; head office; main office
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
interior; inside; internal
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
branch manager; manager of a branch office
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
hideout (e.g. of fugitive from justice); hiding place
to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you