to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
commercial (radio, TV, etc.); ad; construction management; contract manufacturer; customer management; court martial
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
confections; sweets; candy; cake
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
ratio; proportion; percentage
(sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)
suddenly; at once; considerably; very much; firmly; with an effort
to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on
key; lock; key (to a problem); clue
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
small-format paperback book; pocket paperback
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
student accommodation; student dormitory
reception (e.g. of visitors); dealing with
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
program (e.g. TV); programme
alone; by oneself; on one's own
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
butting (in boxing); clashing (of schedules, etc.); conflict; colliding
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something