jpdb beta

barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock

5

breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing

1

readiness; (mental) preparedness; resolution; determination; resignation (to one's fate)

6

rival; competitor; competition

2

national, prefectural and other public universities and colleges

1

private university

1

being enrolled (at a school); being registered; being a member (of a team, organization, etc.)

6

to furnish with; to equip with; to prepare for; to make preparations for; to possess (all that is needed); to be endowed with

4

academic background; academic credentials; academic record

3

superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding

11

people

9

to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest

2

unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

6

appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of

1

San'etsu (the three former provinces of Echizen, Etchū and Echigo)

3

Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)

4

red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion

4

Holdings

2

front (aspect, weather, war-front, etc.); reception (e.g. in a hotel); front desk; front office; team management

1

large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

3

pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)

1

slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

1

shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

1

authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers

3

O; o

1

Hankyu Department Store

1

Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)

1

east

1

sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid

2

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)

1

rice field

2

well

2

to long for; to yearn for; to hanker after; to be attracted by; to be drawn to; to aspire to

1

but; however; although

5

always; constantly; at all times; habitually

8

top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat; home page (of a website)

1

to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

1

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

1

tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe

3

if it's the case

7

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

3

to hide; to conceal oneself; to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to live in seclusion; to retire (from the world)

2

eastern Japan (usu. east of the Chūbu region)

2

major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle

13

infrastructure

11

system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type

27

zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group; rich person

1

general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different

2

three; 3

4

water caltrop (esp. Trapa japonica); water chestnut; caltrop (weapon)

3