jpdb beta

reason; pretext; motive

3

hundreds

2

counter for people

2

media

1

practice; practising; experience

1

suitable person; well-qualified person; responsible party; responsible person

1

a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many

1

viewer; (television) audience

1

participatory; participating; hands-on

1

discussion

1

unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

2

preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)

1

direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination

1

such ... as; or some such

2

part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

2

wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point

1

statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal

4

national network broadcast; nation-wide broadcast

1

to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision

1

obedient; docile; quiet

1

to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)

2

opinion; view; comment

3

as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

2

direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

2

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

2

intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation

4

difficult to ...; hard to ...

5

so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore

1

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

three; 3

6

muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line

1

offer

2

to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to

1

what sort; what kind

2

aim

4

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

2

to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish

7

why; how

6

feeling; mood

1

to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct

1

House of Councillors (upper house of the National Diet of Japan)

1

my party; our party; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you

2

House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet

2

so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here

1

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

1

we

4

another time; again; over again; formally; especially; intentionally

1

chance; opportunity

2

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

1

important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident

2