noninclusion in a team; not being chosen to play
police investigator; investigator
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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)
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
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
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...
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
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
assistant; adjunct; lieutenant
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 order; to command; to appoint
ace (playing card); ace (of a team); leading player; ace; hotshot; ace (serve)
(police) detective; criminal matter
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
person with a lot of experience; old hand; veteran (in a particular field)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
obstacle; hindrance; impediment; nuisance; bore; burden
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
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.)
baggage; luggage; burden; albatross around one's neck; excess baggage
though; notwithstanding; although
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
idiot; fool; idiocy; stupidity
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
settlement; solution; resolution
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but