obstacle; impediment; hindrance; handicap; impairment; disability
influence; clout; leverage
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
economical; bargain; good value; good-value
establishment (of a business); founding
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
sake brewery; wine cellar; bar; bar-room
long-established shop; shop of long standing; old shop
Japanese-style confectionary store
long time; long interval; for quite some time
territorial relationship; regional bond
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
to entrust; to leave to a person
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch
to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; one cup after another; cup by cup
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
scandal; deplorable event
enterprise; business; company; corporation
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit
resolute; determined; bold
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
parting gift; remembrance; aftereffect
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
reform; reformation; reorganization
to increase; to add to; to augment
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
flag; pataka (banner); banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts