factory; plant; mill; workshop
closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
labor service; labour service
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
very great; enormous; serious
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
groundwork; foundation; inclination; aptitude; undercoat; first coat
spelling mistake (usually in a foreign language)
(not so) much; (not) very
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
writing on someone's behalf
emergency demands; special procurement (particularly in time of war)
port city; harbor city; harbour city
diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization
Japanese person; Japanese people
far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for
idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase
to master (e.g. a skill); to become accustomed to (e.g. a lifestyle); to acquire (e.g. a habit); to retain
spoken language; colloquial speech; (modern) spoken Japanese; written style based on (modern) spoken Japanese
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
actual place; actual location; the spot; place where one is currently living
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
incendiary bomb; firebomb
common sense; general knowledge; common knowledge
to slash back; to strike back; to counterattack; to cut the wheel; to perform a twisting backward knee trip
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
restoration (to original state or location); reconstruction; reversion