jpdb beta

deep voice; rich voice; full voice

1

duty; public service

1

official regulations; inner rules

2

personal affairs; private matter; personal secret; privacy

1

he; she; that guy

1

to have an audience; to meet; to face (an enemy); to confront; to serve (esp. as one's wife)

2

to get (someone's) help; to ask for help

1

moderation; standard

3

to fall behind; to lag behind; to lose (race, contest)

1

to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile

1

protest; refutation; pleading

1

to trample; to crush underfoot

7

to quit one's job; to resign

1

inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure

1

to throw away; to abandon; to give up; to relinquish; to lay down (one's life)

2

to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner

1

underground shopping center; underground shopping centre

1

behavior; behaviour; manner; attitude; bearing

1

being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net

1

one way or the other; either way

6

to give a reason

5

to take pride in; to pride oneself; to be proud of

3

fool; nitwit; The Fool (Tarot card)

4

time of great change; era of reform

1

the first ...; primary

1

baby boom

1

position; job; employment; opening

1

revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

3

rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

1

agriculture

1

wealthy farmer

2

eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son

11

relative; relation; kin

7

widow

2

farmer; farming family; farmhouse

1

one's principal residence; main home

2

detached building; solitary house; room detached from main house; separation from; loss of interest in; independence of

7

Manchuria

1

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 (ritsuryo system)

12

north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

1

for dear life; barely escaping alive

3

Manchuria

3

postwar

5

Japanese colonists of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia

1

husband

20

prime of womanhood

1

mountain (or hill) behind a house, village, etc.; side of a mountain that gets little sunshine; envious; jealous

3

folded paper crane

1

the opposite sex; isomerism

4

television program; TV program

6