bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
sending a manuscript to the printer; receiving a manuscript from the author
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
to apologize; to apologise
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
deadline; closing; cofferdam; closed (door, window, etc.)
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
to be needed; to be wanted
seasoning; flavour; flavor
deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
two persons; two people; pair; couple
and yet; though; when; in spite of
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
obedient; meek; docile; honest; frank; upfront (about one's feelings)
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
abstention; nonparticipation
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
reply (e.g. email, fax, letter); answer
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle