white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted
agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; mutual relations (between family members, coworkers, etc.)
hand-to-hand fighting; grappling; scuffling
group; party; team; organization; organisation; association
raising an army; launching business
incorporated foundation; juridical foundation
fallen scraps; scatterings; leftovers; remainder; student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.)
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
future (usually near); prospects
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you
(talk of a) moneymaking scheme; moneymaking idea; get-rich-quick proposal
when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
until now; so far; up to the present
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
where; which; anyway; anyhow; sooner or later; eventually
match between fighters of different sports; battle involving two different disciplines
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
ratings (e.g. of a television program); audience rating; viewing rate
just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; (lit.) in the time it takes to say "ah!"
increase; multiplication; propagation; proliferation
already; now; no longer; not any more
global standard; global standards
to flap (wings); to spread one's wings; to go out into the world
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
together (with); at the same time; in a lump
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords
hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)