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The Japanese Dentists Association affair is an incident concerning secret donations from the Japanese Dentists Association to Diet members belonging to the LDP.
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Vocabulary list

nichi
noun
  1. Sunday
suffix
  1. day (of the month) (also んち or ち)
suffix, counter
  1. counter for days (also んち or ち)
noun, noun, used as a suffix, noun, used as a prefix
  1. Japan
ren
noun
  1. two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper) (ateji for "ream"; also written as 嗹)
  2. stanza; verse (also written as 聯)
  3. tribe (in taxonomy)
  4. forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
noun, used as a suffix
  1. party; company; group; set
counter
  1. things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc. (also written as 聯)
  2. falcon
yamikenkin
noun
  1. illegal donation; secret contribution
yami
noun, no adjective
  1. darkness; the dark
noun
  1. bewilderment; despair; hopelessness
  2. hidden place; secrecy; oblivion
noun, no adjective
  1. black market; shady trading; underhand transactions; illegal channels
kenkin
noun, suru verb
  1. donation; contribution; offering
jiken
noun
  1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
toha
expression, particle
  1. indicates word or phrase being defined
  2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.) (indicates contrast or adds emphasis to a negative statement)
  3. with (more emphatic than と)
  4. (not) as much as; (not) so much as (with neg. verb)
  5. the fact that; to think that; such a thing as (indicates surprise, disbelief, anger, etc.; sometimes at sentence end)
to
particle, conjunction
  1. if; when
  2. and
particle
  1. with
  2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
noun
  1. promoted pawn
particle
  1. indicates a question (at sentence end)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
nippon
noun
  1. Japan
shikaishi
noun
  1. dentist
shika
noun
  1. dentistry
ishi
noun, no adjective
  1. doctor; physician
renmei
noun, no adjective
  1. league; federation; union; alliance
ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
jiyuuminshutou
noun
  1. Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
  2. Free Democratic Party (Germany); FDP
shozoku
noun, suru verb, no adjective
  1. belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
kokkaigiin
noun
  1. member of the Diet; Diet member; member of parliament; MP
kokkai
noun
  1. National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
  2. Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
  3. legislative assembly; parliament; congress
giin
noun
  1. member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress
ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
yamikenkin
noun
  1. illegal donation; secret contribution
yami
noun, no adjective
  1. darkness; the dark
noun
  1. bewilderment; despair; hopelessness
  2. hidden place; secrecy; oblivion
noun, no adjective
  1. black market; shady trading; underhand transactions; illegal channels
kenkin
noun, suru verb
  1. donation; contribution; offering
suru

Plain Past Indicative Form

shita
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)
jiken
noun
  1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal

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