achievement; performance; results; work; contribution
contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause)
Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
column (e.g. in newspaper); stand-alone feature article framed by a box
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
our country; our land; one's own country
Japan Professional Football League (abbr)
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
than; from; out of; except; but; more
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
management; administration; operation
next term; next period; next version; next release
interview (i.e. television, newspaper, etc.)
established (existing) policy (procedure(s))
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
board of directors; board of directors' meeting
by means of; due to; because of; according to
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
previous generation (e.g. one's parents); family predecessor; predecessor; previous age
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
(not) even once; (not) ever
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up