please (give me); please (do for me)
war; fighting; fierce competition
counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level
company president; manager; director
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
father; dad; husband; you; he
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
military personnel; soldier
Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
Siberia; cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
in that way; thus; so; so?
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
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...
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)