notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card
home (family, domestic) life
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)
dress; outfit; equipment; makeup; adornment; guise
one's own work; making by oneself
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
ready-made goods; off-the-shelf item
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
feeling that one is living in a completely different age; feeling that something belongs to a different age; feeling that the world has changed dramatically
globalization; globalisation
answer respectively agreement or disagreement
advance (e.g. of Japanese exports) into overseas markets
lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with
advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging
home area; home town; local
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
scale; scope; plan; structure
stimulation (e.g. of an economy); revitalization (e.g. of a town); rejuvenation; activation
one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously
antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation
colony; (Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)
possession (esp. of a territory)
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter