jpdb beta

all people; everybody; ten thousand people

2

certain; definite; clear; credible

1

to be profitable; to yield a profit

1

office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)

1

to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on

1

rich; wealthy; affluent; rich (flavour)

1

materialistic

1

perseverance; determination; tenacity; energy

1

to beat into shape

1

educator; teacher; educationalist

2

quite; very

1

small number; few; minority

2

two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)

2

achievement; performance; results; work; contribution

1

to become famous; to make a name for oneself

1

influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible

1

egoist

1

biochemistry

1

Nobel Prize

3

one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good

1

to miss; to fail to capitalize; to fail to capitalise

1

boastful speech; bragging

1

greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice

1

to take hold of; to possess; to haunt

1

to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

2

many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly

1

to put on (another's shoes by mistake); to put (shoes) on the wrong feet; to mistake (one thing for another); to confuse; to have a mistaken idea of

1

our country; our land; one's own country

1

distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin

1

narrow-mindedness; intolerance; illiberality; narrowness

1

essence; true nature; substance; reality

1

ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making

1

education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

1

policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle

1

to come from; to have roots in

3

Narita

1

feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

2

middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary

1

tsubo; traditional unit of land area, approx. 3.31 square meters; tsubo; traditional unit of fabric or paper area, approx. 9.18 square centimeters; tsubo; traditional unit of leather or tile area, approx. 918 square centimeters

2

during one's tenure

1

completion of construction

1

leadership

1

extravagant; absurd

1

the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem

1

person concerned; interested party; related party

1

confused (situation); great fuss; much wrangling

1

to incline one's head

1

trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts

1

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right

1

to resist; to defy

1