birth date; date of birth; DOB
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
sixteenth day of the month; sixteen days
Yamanashi prefecture (Chūbu area)
district of a town; city block (of irregular size)
second; number two; runner-up
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
individual; one by one; separate; each
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
to state; to express; to mention
how; in what way; how about; questionable
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
to make clear; to clarify; to disclose; to make public
to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
timewise; temporal; chronal
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
judgement; judgment; carrying out a sentence (e.g. execution)
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal