construction; establishment
company director; board member
greeting; a fine thing to say
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
until now; so far; up to the present
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
wealthy; rich; affluent; well-off
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
will; resolution; kindness; goodwill; gift (as a token of gratitude)
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
in that manner; like that
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
cheese; tee (piping); T-joint; cheese (said when taking a photograph)
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
life; living; I; me; student
job hunting; job searching
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
consent; assent; agreement; understanding; comprehension; grasp
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
so; like this; in this way
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
myself; yourself; I; me; you
taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair