today;  this day;  these days;  recently;  nowadays
 indicates possessive;  nominalizes verbs and adjectives;  substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases;  (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion;  (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis;  (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
 video (esp. digital);  video clip;  animation;  animated cartoon;  in-betweens (animation)
 theme;  topic;  subject matter;  motif;  project;  slogan
 indicates sentence topic;  indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated);  adds emphasis
 painful;  sore;  cringy;  embarrassing;  exceeding
 embankment;  bank;  beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin
 to fall down;  to fall over;  to turn out;  to play out;  to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism);  to apostatize
 injury;  wound;  mistake;  accident;  loss
 indicates direct object of action;  indicates subject of causative expression;  indicates an area traversed;  indicates time (period) over which action takes place;  indicates point of departure or separation of action;  indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
 to do;  to carry out;  to cause to become;  to make (into);  to serve as;  to act as;  to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
 bang;  bam;  noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō);  noon gun;  last round in a game of 12 rounds;  precisely
 to strike against;  to collide with;  to encounter;  to meet;  to clash
 having a headache;  racking one's brains;  troubling over something
 indicates sentence subject (occasionally object);  indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions);  but;  however;  regardless of;  whether (or not)
 time;  hour;  occasion;  case;  chance;  opportunity
 various;  all sorts of;  variety of; (arch.)  various colors (colours)
 to be;  to exist;  to have;  to be located;  to be equipped with;  to happen
 number one;  first;  best;  most;  game;  round
 thing;  matter;  incident;  occurrence;  circumstances;  situation;  work
 concerning;  regarding;  per (e.g. 100 yen per person);  for every
 story;  tale;  talk;  discussion
 at;  in;  at;  when;  by;  with;  and then
 year;  counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school);  period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
 from now;  from the present moment;  from this time forward;  henceforth
 in front (of);  before (e.g. a building);  before;  earlier;  (the) front;  frontal part;  forward
 incident;  affair;  happening;  event
 at that time;  at that moment;  then;  on that occasion
 daughter;  girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
 pregnancy;  conception;  gestation
 inside;  interior;  among;  within;  middle;  center;  during
 at (place, time);  in;  to (direction, state);  toward;  for (purpose);  because of (reason);  for
 to be (of animate objects);  to exist;  to stay;  to be ...-ing;  to have been ...-ing
 January;  first month of the lunar calendar
 cold (e.g. weather);  uninteresting (esp. joke);  lame;  dull
 if;  when;  and;  with;  used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.);  promoted pawn;  indicates a question
 heat;  fever;  temperature;  zeal;  passion
 to leave;  to exit;  to leave (on a journey);  to depart;  to move forward;  to come to;  to get to
 nasal mucus;  dripping nose;  snot