multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill; check; bill; promissory note
construction; establishment
city planning; urban planning; town planning
to originate (with); to start (with); to stem (from)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
feng shui; fengshui; wind and water
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
Europe and the United States; Europe and America; the West
idea; conception; way of thinking; approach; expression
being seen here and there; appearing in various places
ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences); ground-breaking ceremony
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life
details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
to come true (of a dream, wish, etc.); to be realized; to be fulfilled; to be granted; to be answered (of a prayer); to be requited (of love)
the West; the Occident; Western countries
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)
thin (of an object); pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.)
to refuse; to decline; to deny
outside the country; abroad
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
environment; surroundings; circumstances
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
place; location; room; space; sumo tournament
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
it is assuredly (that) ...; can say with confidence that it is ...
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
race (of people); type of person
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
to assume an aspect; to take on an appearance
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; heedlessly; against one's better judgement (judgment)
discriminatory; discriminative
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to be offended; to get angry; to be stuffy; to be stifling; firmly (shutting one's mouth)