10,000,000,000; ten billion
environmental problem; environmental issue
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
existential threat; life-or-death crisis
unconnected; weakly related; alien; having little prospect of marriage
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
independent; responsible; active; subjective
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
pride; boast; credit (to)
even more; still more; further
bio-; biotechnology; VAIO (Sony brand-name)
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
in general; generally; as a whole; all in all; altogether
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to intimidate; to frighten; to scare; to threaten (e.g. peace); to jeopardize; to endanger
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
heavy and chemical industries
straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis
consideration; taking into account
significant turning point
ultimate; final; last; eventual
to hammer into place; to end (a performance); to kill; to slay
blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration
fault; error; indiscretion; faux pas
stylization; to stylize; to conventionalize