jpdb beta

10,000,000; ten million

1

unreasonable request; asking for something unreasonable

2

hope; wish; aspiration

2

bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters

13

methodology

1

to investigate thoroughly; to examine closely; to probe into; to be obsessed with a thought; to brood over; to worry about

2

pedestrian bridge

1

(secret) date; clandestine meeting; assignation; tryst; rendezvous

2

to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on

6

foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); different person

2

sharpness; sharp weapon; blade; fine soldier

1

fashionable person

1

these

3

three kinds; three varieties

2

blue eyes

9

to clear; to make clear; to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to look demure; to look prim

1

cute

1

fiction

1

pace; step; cadence

1

to enjoy (oneself)

7

to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)

1

material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

2

to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)

1

next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (last month, etc.); for (20 years, etc.)

4

courteous; decorous; polite

2

to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort

1

half; biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage

1

to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high

1

to become rusted together; to become rusted shut; to rust; to become (completely) rusty; to become rusty (of a skill or ability); to become less effective

1

tin plate

1

first year of high school; first-year high school student

1

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

10

what to do

7

to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)

1

guardian; protector; patron; parent

1

it is I who should say so

2

calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")

1

contrast

1

the West; the Occident; Western countries

1

Japan and Europe

1

collaboration

1

(one) could even say that

1

to produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.); to design (e.g. new commercial product, restaurant concept, etc.); to create; production; creation; design

1

to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond

1

unexpected meeting; coincidence

2

about to start out; just about to leave or go out; outing; trip

1

coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

7

to exclude (someone); to shun; to ignore; to leave out; to ostracize

2

being left out; being ostracized

1

to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend)

1