to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
danger; peril; hazard; risk
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
ability; performance; efficiency
inundation; submersion; flood
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
Japan Coast Guard (formerly Maritime Safety Agency)
one's possessions; ownership
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
to entrust; to leave to a person
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
previously; already; beforehand; in advance; for some time
Minister for Foreign Affairs
friction; discord; strife
Minister of Defense; Minister of Defence
serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of; additional post
resignation (from a position)
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
right to dissolve (e.g. the Diet)
before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth
last century; ancient times
to attract interest; to capture attention