foreign capital group; foreign company
financial institutions; banking facilities
fierce; intense; severe; violent; strong; vehement
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum
Japanese company (business, firm)
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
(political) administration; political power
in the meanwhile; during the time
Democratic Party (esp. DPJ or US Democratic Party); Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
to play a leading role; to play a central part
re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
one o'clock; once; at one time; for a time; for a while; a time
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
slowly; unhurriedly; easily (e.g. in time); well; well (e.g. sleep); comfortably
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
depreciation; decline; fall; slump
considerably; fairly; quite
major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle
city bank; metropolitan bank
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
panic; scare; alarm; panic; financial panic
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
to be able to manage somehow or another
atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere
superior; excellent; fine
enterprise; business; company; corporation
position; location; base; point; site
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
economic bloc; ecosystem (of services, goods, etc. within a company or consortium)
establishment; founding; organization; organisation
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations; ASEAN
various countries; various regions; various provinces
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
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)