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director

part

role

three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc.)

leading part

active duty

company director

actor

government office

government official

counselor

board of directors

penal servitude

duty

municipal office

auditor

assistant official

post

ward office

town hall

(company) director

town hall

military service

important task

retiring from military service

penal servitude

child actor

villain

substitute (actor)

role

casting (of a play, film, etc.)

to be helpful

of no avail

role

successful role

to put to use

village office

instigator

government treasurer

assistant

labor

manager

role of the villain

handling cargo

supporting role (actor)

role (which someone or something plays in a given situation)

official title

final three bouts on the last day of a tournament

double role

one's superior

colleague

menstruation

physical labor

public service

temporary extra work

(public) duty

go-between

mediator

well-suited role

(role of) heel (in wrestling, films, etc.)

small part (e.g. in a film)

to set (citizens) to work

winning hand

travelling for work

scoring combination in one's dealt hand (i.e. at the start of a game)

female role (e.g. in film)

study (for a role)

former post

colleague

double role

petty official

host

being in prison

conjugation

pi conjugation

service

substitute actor

points awarded for scoring combinations

scoring combination made with captured cards

underling

board or officer's meeting

leading male role in kabuki

leading actor

of no use whatsoever

to put to use

the four top party executives (of the LDP)

setting (someone) to work

Edo-period official of the chōnin social class

laborer

to be useful

useless

government housing for officials

opposing role

wrestler newly promoted to a san'yaku rank

military service

guide

party officer

nature of one's position

male part or role

perquisite

referee officiating bouts of san'yaku ranked wrestlers

military campaign

first role

scoring combination made with captured cards

leading actor

clerk

dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one

listener's role

stage favorite

personal attendant

lacking a role

person who makes someone else appear better

third-rate actor

board of directors

(member of one of) the top four ranks of sumo wrestlers

easement

to take on a role

three highest ranks in a ministry: minister, vice minister and parliamentary secretary

star (actor)

(putting on the) airs of an official

facilitator

labor system in which able-bodied men were required to work for periods in the capital (ritsuryō system)

inspector

work

of no use whatsoever

assistant (to section manager)

nurse

holding a position of responsibility

watchdog

moderator

former san'yaku-ranked wrestler returning to that rank

service in the first reserve

instructor

Military Service Law (1927-1945)

working generation

prison labor camp

executioner

skilled actor who is like a child offstage

senior's role

causative form

distribution of assignments

gender role

person standing watch

clown

service in the second reserve

student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school

notary public's office

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

chief actor in a kabuki play

job title