great love; passionate affair
university hospital; teaching hospital
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
match; game; bout; contest
national polity; National Athletic Meet
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
set meal; special (of the day)
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
consecutive defeats; series of defeats
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
explanation; interpretation
eternal; unlimited; endless
near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
really; truly; indeed; good grief
suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
to fit; to get into; to be fit for (a job, etc.); to be suited for; to fall into; to plunge into
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
to bring; to take; to bring about
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
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
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
to be born; to come into the world
contradiction; inconsistency
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour