half and half; fifty-fifty
nationality; citizenship; nationality (ship, airplane, etc.); registration; flag
upright; honest; faithful; conscientious; sincere
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
tendency; trend; inclination
blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative
great-grandmother; great-grandma
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
Northern Europe; Nordic countries; Scandinavia
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
measurement error; calculation error
great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
Taishō period (1912-1926); Taisho period
classic (work, esp. book); the classics
difficult to ...; hard to ...
that's a different matter; that's a different story
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
babysitting; babysitter; taking care of; assisting; assistant
to make someone's acquaintance; to become acquainted (with)
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
surrounding at a distance
comprehension; understanding; enlightenment; spiritual awakening; satori
assertion; declaration; affirmation
molding; moulding; shaping; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around