character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
one of these days; someday; one day
root; source; origin; cause
serious; severe; grave; acute
seasoning; flavour; condition; state; (state of) health; physical condition
to sense; to perceive; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
to explain clearly; to give detailed instructions
difficult to ... (physically or emotionally); hard to ...
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
to take great pains; to make every effort; to rack one's brains; to be concerned; to worry
result (that makes an act worthwhile); worth (in doing something); value; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)
visit for no reason; going on a fool's errand
(stroke of) luck; (unexpected) good fortune; godsend; windfall
very much; very many; more and more
(time of) one's childhood; when one was a child
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
spirit of self-reliance; feeling of independence
to meet fortuitously; to meet by chance; to happen across
to obtain; to get; to procure; to win; to secure
(not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) altogether
off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant
company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
thinly; slightly; vaguely; a little
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
sentencing; pronouncement of a verdict; passing of sentence; declaration (of a diagnosis, bankruptcy, decision, etc.); announcement; pronouncement
being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing; manifesting
representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
plan; protocol; manifest; program
establishment; founding; incorporation (of a business)
getting rich quick; making a killing; making a fortune at a single stroke
business; enterprise; venture; (social) project; undertaking; enterprise
to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to establish (e.g. a company); to build up; to set up
preparatory phase; preparatory period
training period; residency (esp. medical); internship
plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward
crop; harvest; income; profits; loaded (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry)
failure; mistake; blunder
to lay the blame on; to put the fault on
to take (preventive) measures; to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together