disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
to face; to go towards; to head towards
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
president (of a society); chairman
Fukuoka (city, prefecture)
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)
Shiba Ryoutarou (1923.8.7-1996.2.12)
splendid horse; promoted bishop
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
senior high school; high school
leaving school during a term
going to the United States
automatic translation machine
to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily
capital; funds; seed money; asset
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
making rapid progress; making great advances; rush; dash; onslaught
businessman; industrialist
nameless; unnamed; obscure; unknown; causeless; unjustifiable
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited
Mikitani Hiroshi (1965.3.11-)
purchasing plan; acquisition plan
change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly
though; notwithstanding; although
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
to launch oneself upon; to make one's debut
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
such ... as; or some such
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need