talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
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.)
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
world; society; people; the public
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
property; fortune; assets
just one person; only one
woman; female; feminine gender
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
article (in document); provision; stripe; streak; although; though
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
two persons; two people; pair; couple
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person