if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
Island; insula; island; islet
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
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
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 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
Financial Services Agency; FSA
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
fact-finding survey based on interviews; oral survey; interview survey
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
decisive battle; deciding match; play-off
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to face; to go towards; to head towards
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
loss (of assets, profit, etc.)
the reverse; other side; lining
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
company president; manager; director
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
special duty; being in sole charge of a duty; senior managing director; executive director
(bank) president; greenroom manager (in a theater)
managing director; executive director; routine business; regular business
to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring
being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over