front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
distortion; falsification; perversion
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
sign; indication; omen; symptom
important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)
great war; great battle; world war
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to; equal to
simply; merely; only; solely
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
10,000; ten thousand; 10^4
thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)
appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
connection; link; relationship
to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base
to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...
to concern; to be related
memory; recollection; remembrance; memory; storage
very interesting; of great interest
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
fixing (in place); being fixed (in place); fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same; fixation (histology); user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously)
same period; corresponding period; same year (of graduation, entering a company, etc.); contemporary; synchronization; synchronism
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
shortage; amount outstanding (e.g. on loan); deficit
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
numerical value; figure; result; reading (on a meter, etc.)
diversion (e.g. of funds); appropriation; misappropriation; making use of (for another purpose); reuse; repurpose