end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
to have a lot of influence (in); to have clout (with); to be influential; to have contacts (in)
member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
how long; how far; how much
once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama)
to go along; to walk along; to follow
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
fifth day of the month; five days
100,000,000; one hundred million
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
transfer; redirection; transmission; forwarding (telephone call, e-mail, etc.)
to repeat; to do something over again
identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
point in common; common feature
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
to be found; to be discovered
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
good thing; strong point; good family; prestigious school; the right moment; utter
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
high class; high grade; high rank; seniority
foreign-made car; imported car; paddle wheel
member (of a class); trainee; participant
gold nugget; gold bullion; gold bar; gold ingot
round-the-world trip; circumnavigation; globe-trotting