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• この病気で死ぬまいと思うが、念のため医者に相談して下さい。   [ex #425]
You probably won't die from this illness, but just in case please consult a doctor.

• ハイテクばかりが起業ではあるまい。   [ex #493]
Just high-tech isn't enough to get a business started.

• 5人に1人が車を持つようになる日も遠くあるまい。   [ex #4693]
It will not be long before one out of five persons comes to have a car.

• ああいう風ではたいした者になれまい。   [ex #4694]
If he goes on like that, he will never amount to much.

• いかなる状況のもとでも、王女が王位を継承することはあるまい。   [ex #4695]
Under no circumstances will the princess succeed to the throne.

• この牛乳は明日までもつまい。   [ex #4696]
This milk won't keep till tomorrow.

• そのことですぐに何か手を打たねばなるまい。   [ex #4697]
Something must be done about it in no time.

• それは君の役には立つまい。   [ex #4698]
That won't help you.

• そんな噂は誰も信じまい。   [ex #4699]
Nobody will believe that rumor.

• 火星へ旅行できる日も遠くあるまい。   [ex #4701]
It won't be long before we can travel to Mars.

• 今度は罪をまぬがれまい。   [ex #4703]
We'll get in this time.

• 少々のウイスキーを飲んでも害にはなりますまい。   [ex #4704]
It'll do no harm to drink a little whisky.

• 彼はもう英語は教えまい。   [ex #6088]
He probably won't teach English any more.

• 彼女はそんなことはすまい。   [ex #6089]
She probably won't do such a thing.

• こんな機会は二度とこまい。   [ex #6090]
Such an opportunity probably won't come again.

• 清のパーティーにはもう行くまいと思った。   [ex #6091]
I decided (lit. thought) that I would not go to Kiyoshi's parties any more.

• もう橋本には何も頼むまいと心に決めた。   [ex #6092]
I am determined not to ask any more favors of Hashimoto.

• 恵子は清のパーティーにはもう行くまいと思った。   [ex #6093]
Keiko decided (lit. thought) that she would not go to Kiyoshi's parties any more.

• 恵子は清のパーティーにもう行くまい。   [ex #6094]
Keiko probably won't go to Kiyoshi's parties any more.

• 彼は私のハンドバッグを取ろうとしたが、私は取られ(る)まいとして脇の下に強くはさんだ。   [ex #6095]
He tried to take my bag, but I held it tightly under my arm, trying to keep it from being taken.

• 私は負け(る)まいと頑張った。   [ex #6096]
I hung in there, trying not to lose (the game).

• 日本へ行こうか行くまいか迷った。   [ex #6098]
I couldn't decided whether or not I should go to Japan.

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• This usage is now generally replaced by ないだろう (contributor: Amatuka)
  
• Commonly used with あるまい (contributor: Amatuka)
  
• Hmm, my example might be 'mai-3' : expression of a negative that is natural or appropriate. (contributor: Amatuka)
  
• As for the first example, we don't say 死ぬまい for the third person. We'd say 病気で死ぬことはあるまいと思うが、…。
  When you talk about yourself, you'd say この病気で死ぬまい、絶対生きてやる。 (contributor: Miki)
  
• in #4703 what does まぬがれまい mean? (contributor: dc)
  
• まぬかれる is a dictonary form. It is also pronounced as まぬがれる. 免れる means 逃れる.
  まぬがれ + まい (neg) >>> You will not be able to escape from being punished this time.
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The new government in Japan seems to have been conducting an awful lot of surveys recently, with the latest one from the Cabinet Office Japan being on a gender-equal society. This survey was last conducted five years ago and translated three years ago.

Demographics

5,000 adults over the age of twenty were selected at random from all over the country, and an attempt was made to conduct face-to-face interviews with them over the period of the 1st to 18th of October 2009. 3,240 people, or 64,8%, were available and agreed to take part. 53.4% of the sample were female, 9.8% in their twenties, 14.6% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 19.0% in their fifties, 22.2% in their sixties and 18.1% aged seventy or older. 48.5% were emploted, 9.9% self-employed, 3.7% in the family business, and 37.9% homemakers, studens, or retired. 74.6% were married, 0.7% were unmarried but living with their partner, 4.3% divorced, 5.7% widowed, and 14.8% unmarried. Finally, 77.6% had children.

Q10SQ is a bit of a strange set of answers to me, although perhaps it is just my intellectual thought processes that say exposure to those who don’t want to see it is not really the fault of the media on the whole. I would also put the objectification of women much higher up the ranking, but I don’t think there is the same degree of awareness in Japan as in the west.

Research results

Q7: What is your own desired balance between outside work, home life, local or personal activities (local events, study, hobbies, socialising, etc)? (Sample size=3,240)

Want to place priority on work	8.5%
Want to place priority on home life	28.7%
Want to place priority on local or personal activities	2.2%
Want to place priority on work and home life	31.2%
Want to place priority on work and local or personal activities	3.6%
Want to place priority on home life and local or personal activities	7.8%
Want to place priority on work, home life, local or personal activities	16.9%
Don’t know	1.1%

Q8: What is your own actual balance between outside work, home life, local or personal activities (local events, study, hobbies, socialising, etc)? (Sample size=3,240)

Place priority on work	25.8%
Place priority on home life	33.0%
Place priority on local or personal activities	3.7%
Place priority on work and home life	21.0%
Place priority on work and local or personal activities	3.6%
Place priority on home life and local or personal activities	6.7%
Place priority on work, home life, local or personal activities	4.6%
Don’t know	1.6%

Q9: “For child-rearing, caring, and other family burdens to be recognised as important societally, it should be rated by society as a whole” is one way of thinking; for you what form of evaluation do you think is needed for each of the following? (Sample size=3,240)

Child-rearing

Allowances, tax breaks, other financial favourable treatment	70.5%
Public recognition, other societal evaluation	4.9%
No financial or societal support is needed	13.9%
Other	5.4%
Don’t know	5.3%

Caring

Allowances, tax breaks, other financial favourable treatment	78.8%
Public recognition, other societal evaluation	6.4%
No financial or societal support is needed	6.9%
Other	3.2%
Don’t know	4.8%

Other home-related tasks

Allowances, tax breaks, other financial favourable treatment	19.7%
Public recognition, other societal evaluation	12.5%
No financial or societal support is needed	43.9%
Other	15.2%
Don’t know	8.7%

Neighborhood councils, other local activities

Allowances, tax breaks, other financial favourable treatment	12.3%
Public recognition, other societal evaluation	48.9%
No financial or societal support is needed	22.5%
Other	8.0%
Don’t know	8.2%

Q10: Do you think expression of sex or violence on television, newspapers, magazines, internet, computer games, other media is a problem? (Sample size=3,240)

Think so (to SQ)	46.4%
Think so to some degree (to SQ)	33.6%
Don’t think so to some degree	9.4%
Don’t think so	6.5%
Don’t know	4.0%

Q10SQ: What kinds of problems do you think there are with expressions of sex or violence? (Sample size=2,593, multiple answer)

Exposure of such expressions to those who don’t want it, to children	63.0%
Damage to the moral framework, ethical sense of society as a whole	59.4%
Promotion of sex crimes against children	51.1%
Over-sexual objectification of women, infringing on women’s rights	41.7%
Promotion of violence against women	30.9%
Other	0.5%
Don’t know	1.9%

Q11: What do you think is the best way to limit such expressions of sex or violence on television, newspapers, magazines, internet, computer games, other media? (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

Filtering services from internet service providers	46.9%
Self-regulation by media organisations	46.6%
Amendment of current laws, passing new laws	46.3%
Filtering settings on reception equipment	41.7%
Manufacturers to develop filtering techniques	37.7%
Strengthening of governmental directives, management systems	35.3%
Promotion of victim support services	22.8%
No particular limits are needed	2.9%
Other	0.5%
Don’t know	11.2%

Q12: In order to form a gender-equal society, what do you think the government should put effort into doing? (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

Support for re-entering the job market after quitting due to child-rearing, caring	64.3%
Support to allow even those involved in child-rearing, caring to continue to work	63.3%
Establish infant, old folk, and infirm people’s nursing facilities and services	62.7%
Conduct a review of laws and regulations	47.0%
Promote the reform of male and female working styles, such as making shorter working hours, working from home the norm	46.8%
Actively promote women to management, committee positions at local, national public bodies	41.5%
Support the promotion of women to management positions in corporations, other organisations	39.9%
Support the promotion to women of fields where there are currently few	35.9%
Offer a place for male and female lifestyle, problem, etc consultation	29.6%
Sufficient education opportunities regarding gender equality, mutual understanding and cooperation	26.6%
Produce publicity materials and pamphlets, etc regarding gender equality, mutual understanding and cooperation	22.8%
Other	0.6%
Nothing in particular	3.0%
Don’t know	3.0%

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The new government in Japan seems to have been conducting an awful lot of surveys recently, with the latest one from the Cabinet Office Japan being on a gender-equal society. This survey was last conducted five years ago and translated three years ago.

Demographics

5,000 adults over the age of twenty were selected at random from all over the country, and an attempt was made to conduct face-to-face interviews with them over the period of the 1st to 18th of October 2009. 3,240 people, or 64,8%, were available and agreed to take part. 53.4% of the sample were female, 9.8% in their twenties, 14.6% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 19.0% in their fifties, 22.2% in their sixties and 18.1% aged seventy or older. 48.5% were emploted, 9.9% self-employed, 3.7% in the family business, and 37.9% homemakers, studens, or retired. 74.6% were married, 0.7% were unmarried but living with their partner, 4.3% divorced, 5.7% widowed, and 14.8% unmarried. Finally, 77.6% had children.

Q1 is pretty depressing, but also pretty accurate, with school education being about the only thing that seems to be relatively balanced.

Research results

Q1: In the following areas, do you think that men and women have equal status? (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

	Men have extremely favourable treatment	Men have favourable treatment to some extent	There is equality	Women have favourable treatment to some extent	Women have extremely favourable treatment	Don’t know
Home life	7.8%	38.7%	43.1%	6.7%	1.7%	1.9%
Workplace	15.6%	46.5%	24.4%	4.4%	0.9%	8.1%
School education	1.9%	12.0%	68.1%	3.9%	0.9%	13.1%
Politics	23.7%	48.1%	21.0%	1.9%	0.3%	5.1%
In law and other institutions	7.8%	33.5%	44.4%	6.5%	0.9%	6.9%
Everyday perception, customs, etc	18.7%	53.2%	20.6%	3.4%	0.5%	3.6%
Neighbourhood councils, NPOs, other local activities	6.5%	28.2%	51.0%	6.4%	0.6%	7.3%

Q2: So, looking at society as a whole, do you think men and women have equal status? (Sample size=3,240)

Men have extremely favourable treatment	9.7%
Men have favourable treatment to some extent	61.9%
There is equality	23.2%
Women have favourable treatment to some extent	3.4%
Women have extremely favourable treatment	0.3%
Don’t know	1.6%

Q3: In which of the following professions or posts do you think the number of women should be increased? (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

Local or national politicians	51.6%
Judges, public prosecutors, lawyers	42.8%
Private industry management	42.3%
Heads of prefectures, cities, towns, villages	40.3%
Local or national civil service mangement	38.1%
Entrepreneurs, proprietors	31.8%
Neighbourhood council, association chairs	29.1%
United Nations, other interational-related management	28.9%
University professors	27.0%
Union leadership	26.4%
Newspaper, broadcast reporters	25.6%
Farm cooperative executives	18.5%
Nothing in particular	16.0%
Other	0.6%
Don’t know	3.1%

Q4: How do you think regarding working women? (Sample size=3,240)

They shouldn’t work at all	3.5%
They should work up until they marry	5.5%
They should work up until they have children	10.7%
Even when they have children, they should continue to work	45.9%
They should quit once they have children, then return to work once they are grown up	31.3%
Other	1.4%
Don’t know	1.8%

Q5: Which of the following words have you heard or seen? (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

Word (日本語)	Reading	English	Heard the term
男女雇用機会均等法	だんじょこようきかいきんとうほう	Gender Equality In Employment Act	79.3%
ＤＶ（配偶者からの暴力）	はいぐうしゃからのぼうりょく	Domestic violence	78.7%
男女共同参画社会	だんじょきょうどうさんかくかい	Gender-equal Society	64.6%
仕事と生活の調和（ワーク・ライフ・バランス）	しごととせいかつのちょうわ	Work-life Balance	37.0%
女子差別撤廃条約	じょせいさべつてっぱいじょうやく	Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	35.1%
ポジェンダー		Gender (English word adopted into Japanese)	31.9%
ジティブ・アクション		Positive action (English word adopted into Japanese)	19.0%
Never heard or seen any of them			5.4%
Don’t know			1.4%

Q6: Please tell me your opinion regarding the following questions on marriage, family etc. (Sample size=3,240, multiple answer)

	Agree	Somewhat agree	Somewhat disagree	Disagree	Don’t know
Because marriage is a personal choice, either being married or not married is OK	48.0%	22.0%	16.9%	11.1%	2.0%
The husband should go out and work, the wife should tend to the home	10.6%	30.7%	31.3%	23.8%	3.6%
If you marry, it is not necessary to have kids	22.5%	20.3%	30.1%	22.8%	4.3%
If you are dissatisfied with your marriage partner, it is OK to divorce	21.9%	28.2%	29.3%	15.5%	5.1%

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• ボナスは買いに使ったつもりで銀行にお金を入れた。   [ex #6837]
Instead of using the bonus pay to buy things, I saved it (in the bank).

• 運動したつもりで、歩いて行った。   [ex #6838]
Instead of doing exercise, I went walking.

• 特別料金は五百円だから、コーヒーを一杯飲んだつもりで、特急電車に乗った。   [ex #6839]
Because the added charge is 500 Yen (the same value than the coffee), instead of drinking a coffee cup, I took the limited express train.

• 死んだつもりで決心した。   [ex #6840]
You made it with the same resolution you will need to die.

• 父親になったつもりで学生の世話をした。   [ex #6841]
I attended this student as if I were his father.

• 有名な人になったつもりで、道で写真を撮らせた。   [ex #6842]
They took a picture of me on the street as if I had became famous .

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• I intent to give a second life to that empty entry changing it completly:
  独立性 [どくりつせい] (dokuritsusei)
  Meaning: independence
  Example: Our independece have a deeper meaning in our heart.
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• 食べ出したが最後、おいしくて止められなかった   [ex #3309]
It was so delicious that once I started eating, I couldn’t stop.

• 見つかったが最後、真珠は取上げられてしまいますぞ。   [ex #3955]
Whoever finds us will take the pearl. [M]

• 入った が最後、二度と出てこられなくなるトイレ   [ex #6504]
Such a restroom that once you enter in it, you wont ever want to come out. (Ex:http://vgzh.dtdns.net/mt/images/rotorooter.jpg)

• あいつはマイクを握ったが最後、離そうとしないカラオケ狂だ。   [ex #6505]
He is such karaoke fan that if only he gets his hands on the mike he wouldn’t drop it all night.

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If something happens in the manga or a character does something you don't particularly like, who do you criticise?