year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
accurate; correct; precise; exact
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
official; formal; formula (e.g. mathematical); official (social media) account (of a company, organization, etc.)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
south wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall
internment camp; detention facility; POW camp; refugee camp
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
master sergeant; sergeant major (JSDF)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
direct control; direct supervision
(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
section manager; section chief
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through
taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
confirmation; verification; validation; review; check; affirmation
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...