person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired
starting a business; promotion of enterprise
to be profitable; to yield a profit
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself
to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to establish (e.g. a company); to build up; to set up
to find out; to discover; to detect
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
to cross one's mind; to be reminded
sprouting; budding; crush (esp. on an imaginary character in manga, etc.); fascination; infatuation
hair on the back of one's head
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
chopping board; cutting board
kitchen knife; carving knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
convenience store lunch box
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
completely; absolutely; (not) at all; (not) a bit; earnestly; intently
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
observation; survey; watching
to pile up; to accumulate
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
to think too much; to be over-concerned
to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited
to be sticky; to be close together
to wash again; to reconsider
evaporation; dehydration; desiccation
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
rough; casual (clothing); rough (of a golf course); rough sketch; rough draft
cotton; cotton pads (usu. in amenity set); cotton buds
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home
matter causing distress; something causing worry
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass