jpdb beta

death sentence

2

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

2

(period of) a year; during an era

1

December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

2

twenty-seventh day of the month; twenty-seven days

1

district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)

2

retainer; vassal; servant

1

household belongings; household goods; family fortune; family assets

1

residence; housing; residential building

2

police officer; policeman; constable

5

sudden; lightning; immediate; shocking

1

prefectural police

2

car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto

1

diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization

1

early dawn; grey of morning; gray of morning

1

siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement

1

in order to do; for the purpose of doing

1

cordon

2

police investigator; investigator

1

eye-witness; witness

4

end-of-year

1

aquatic; on the water

1

transportation network; transport network; traffic network

1

congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder

2

following year

1

breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing

1

search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry

1

magazine (company)

4

to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light); to write something up so that it stands out; to write up in an exaggerated fashion; to detail; to list

2

January; first month of the lunar calendar

2

last day (of a month)

1

"minor snow" solar term (approx. November 22)

1

to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve

3

branch office; police box; local police station

1

to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)

2

native

1

to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

1

Japanese horse chestnut (Aesculus turbinata)

16

Kihei

6

pen nibs

2

ōshinbun; type of Meiji-era newspaper characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language; major newspaper

2

trial; judgement; judgment

7

(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future

1

mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth

1

notes; comment; remark; annotation

4

legal system

1

drunkenness; intoxication; motion sickness; travel sickness

3

doubting; questioning; being skeptical (of)

3

superheating; overheating

2

(nature of a) crime; (criminal) charge

1