to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
influence; clout; leverage
very much; very many; more and more
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
prefectural assembly member
city councillor; city councilor; city assemblyman
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
director; executive; officer; official; person in charge
shop; small store; business; firm
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
Parent-Teacher Association; PTA
liaison group; liaison committee; liaison council
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
forcefulness of speech; influential voice
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity
watchful waiting; careful supervision
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
private; exclusive; secret
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
control; management (e.g. of a business)
municipal office; council; city hall
connection; link; relationship
firm; strong; solid; stable
weir; bonds; fetters; ties of obligation
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
territorial relationship; regional bond
to finish knitting; to lace from bottom to top; to finish compiling (e.g. a dictionary); to finish editing
intelligence or information network
to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
neighbourhood; neighborhood
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
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)