player (of a sport); athlete; team member
near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to ask; to enquire; to query
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
that is to say; so that means
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
primary school; elementary school; grade school
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
time; hour; period; class
being in charge of (esp. a class or subject); taking charge of; class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
in this way; thus; such; uh...
Japan's best; number one in Japan
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
precise; exact; detailed; accurate; minute; close
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
environment; circumstance