| Subject | English | Japanese |
| gen. | n yoji a just cause | 大義名分 news1 nf15 |
| gen. | n ability to cause psychic phenomena | 心霊術 |
| rel., budd. | exp all things are causes of sufferings | 一切皆苦 |
| gen. | n yoji an evil cause producing an evil effect | 因果因縁 |
| prop.name | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | 国富論 (Adam Smith) |
| gen. | assignable causes | 指定要因 |
| rel., budd. | n bad cause | 悪因 |
| gen. | n vs yoji banding together and working as one for a common cause | 一致団結 |
| gen. | bug thought to cause children's diseases | かんの虫 |
| gen. | bug thought to cause children's diseases | 癇の虫 ik |
| gen. | bug thought to cause children's diseases | 疳の虫 |
| gen. | buy a large amount in order to cause prices to rise | 煽る ichi1 |
| gen. | cause a bad result | 祟る |
| gen. | cause a commotion | 嵐を呼ぶ |
| gen. | cause a controversy | 物議を醸す |
| gen. | cause a flood | 出水させる |
| gen. | cause a flood to damage | 浸害する |
| gen. | cause a loss | 穴をあける |
| gen. | cause a loss | 穴を空ける |
| gen. | cause a loss | 穴を開ける |
| gen. | cause a malfunction | 狂わせる |
| gen. | cause a malfunction | 狂わす ichi2 |
| gen. | cause a person trouble | 手を煩わす |
| gen. | cause a person trouble | 手を煩わせる |
| gen. | cause a sensation | 一石を投じる |
| gen. | cause a shower of | 散らす ichi1 news2 nf47 |
| gen. | cause a stir | 波紋を投げかける |
| gen. | cause a stir | 波紋を投げ掛ける |
| gen. | cause abortion | 堕胎する |
| inf. | cause an accident | 事故る |
| gen. | n cause and effect | 原因結果 |
| gen. | n yoji cause and effect | 因果因縁 |
| gen. | adj-na n adj-no cause and effect | 因果 news1 nf13 |
| comp., MS | cause and effect diagram | 原因 - 結果チャート (A type of diagram that documents all the factors that contribute to or affect a given situation (all the causes that lead to a certain effect)) |
| gen. | cause and effect relationship | 因果関係 |
| gen. | cause anxiety | 騒がせる (to) |
| law | cause attributable to | 責めに帰すべき事由 (someone) |
| gen. | cause discord | 波風を立てる |
| gen. | cause drowsiness | 眠気を誘う |
| gen. | cause emotional pain | 刳る |
| gen. | cause emotional pain | 剔る |
| gen. | cause emotional pain | 抉る |
| gen. | cause financial loss | 傷める ichi1 usu. 痛める |
| gen. | cause financial loss | 痛める spec1 |
| gen. | cause for ... | 物 ichi1 (もの) |
| gen. | n yoji cause grounds for concern | 不安材料 (anxiety) |
| gen. | n yoji cause grounds for concern | 懸念材料 (anxiety) |
| gen. | cause greater heaviness | 太らせ |
| gen. | cause harm | 害を及ぼす (to) |
| gen. | cause harm to | 危害を加える |
| gen. | cause loss of face | 顔を潰す spec1 |
| gen. | cause loss of face | 顔をつぶす |
| gen. | cause of ... | 物 ichi1 (もの) |
| gen. | n cause of a disease | 病根 news2 nf38 |
| gen. | n adj-no cause of a disease | 病源 |
| gen. | n adj-no cause of a disease | 病原 news2 nf38 (びょうげん) |
| gen. | cause of accidents | 事故原因 |
| law | cause of action | 請求を理由付ける事実 |
| gen. | n cause of annoyance | 悩みの種 |
| gen. | n cause of annoyance | しゃくの種 |
| gen. | n cause of annoyance | 癪の種 |
| gen. | n cause of death | 死因 news1 nf08 |
| gen. | n cause of defeat | 敗因 news1 nf14 |
| gen. | cause of disease | 病因 |
| gen. | cause of effect | にて spec1 にて is the formal literary form |
| gen. | prt uk cause of effect | でもって more emphatic than で |
| gen. | cause of effect | で spec1 |
| gen. | exp cause of headaches | 頭痛の種 |
| gen. | n cause of irritation | しゃくの種 |
| gen. | n cause of irritation | 癪の種 |
| gen. | n adj-na cause of offence | 癪 |
| gen. | n adj-na cause of offense | 癪 |
| gen. | n cause of trouble | 禍因 |
| gen. | n cause of victory | 勝因 news1 nf17 |
| gen. | cause pain | 傷める ichi1 usu. 痛める |
| gen. | cause pain | 痛める spec1 |
| gen. | cause pain | 苦しめる ichi1 news1 nf17 |
| gen. | cause parents distress | 親を苦しめる |
| gen. | cause repercussions | 波紋を投げ掛ける |
| gen. | cause repercussions | 波紋を投げかける |
| gen. | cause repercussions | 波紋を広げる |
| gen. | cause someone to worry | 心配をかける |
| gen. | cause someone to worry | 心配を掛ける |
| obs. | cause the death of a person | 人を死に致す |
| obs. | cause to be | たらしめる |
| gen. | cause to be indulged or addicted | 溺らす |
| gen. | cause to be inflamed | 爛らかす |
| gen. | cause to be packed | 埋める ichi1 news1 nf09 (うめる) |
| gen. | cause to become | 為る ichi1 |
| gen. | cause to disappear | 銷する |
| gen. | cause to disappear | 消ずる |
| gen. | cause to disappear | 消する |
| gen. | cause to embrace | 抱き合わせる |
| gen. | cause to fall | 貶める |
| gen. | cause to meet | 合せる (e.g. an unpleasant fate) |
| gen. | cause to meet | 併せる news1 nf15 (e.g. an unpleasant fate) |
| gen. | cause to meet | 合す (e.g. an unpleasant fate) |
| gen. | cause to meet | 合わせる ichi1 news1 nf08 (e.g. an unpleasant fate) |
| gen. | cause to meet | 合わす ichi1 news2 nf38 (e.g. an unpleasant fate) |
| gen. | cause to prosper | 拡げる |
| gen. | cause to prosper | おっ広げる |
| gen. | cause to prosper | 展げる |
| gen. | cause to prosper | 押っ広げる emphatic form of 広げる |
| gen. | cause to prosper | 広げる ichi1 news1 nf07 |
| gen. | cause to swell | 腫らす |
| gen. | cause trouble | 事を起こす (a disturbance) |
| gen. | cause trouble | 迷惑を掛ける (for someone) |
| gen. | cause trouble | 迷惑をかける (for someone) |
| gen. | cause trouble | 累を及ぼす (for someone) |
| gen. | cause trouble | 騒がす |
| gen. | n adj-no cause unknown | 原因不明 |
| gen. | adj-na n causes and actions | 因業 |
| law | causes before the commencement of a rehabilitation proceeding | 手続開始前の原因 |
| gen. | n vs champion cause | 標榜 news2 nf40 |
| gen. | chance causes | 偶然要因 |
| reliabil. | common cause failures | 共通原因故障 |
| reliabil. | common-cause outage occurrence | 共通原因停止 |
| gen. | prt conj conjunctive particle indicating a cause or reason | もんで |
| gen. | prt conj conjunctive particle indicating a cause or reason | もので |
| gen. | constitute the cause and effect | 因となり果となる |
| gen. | n contingent cause | 偶因 |
| gen. | n critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect | 春秋の筆法 |
| gen. | n vs death by an external cause | 外因死 |
| gen. | n direct cause | 直接要因 |
| gen. | n diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes | 特定疾患 |
| gen. | n vs dying of natural causes | 病歿 |
| gen. | n vs dying of natural causes | 病没 |
| gen. | n efficient cause | 作用因 |
| gen. | n efficient cause | 動力因 |
| gen. | n exciting cause | 誘因 news2 nf32 spec2 |
| gen. | external cause | 外因 |
| reliabil. | failure cause | 故障原因 |
| gen. | n fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam | 糸屑 (itokuzu) |
| gen. | n fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam | 糸くず |
| gen. | n final cause | 究極要因 |
| gen. | n final cause | 目的因 |
| rel., budd. | five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships | 五菓 |
| rel., budd. | five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships | 五果 |
| gen. | n form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans | ゲルトナー菌 |
| gen. | n formal cause | 形相因 |
| gen. | n gods or demons that cause epidemics | 疫鬼 |
| rel., budd. | n good cause | 善因 (that will bring a good reward) |
| gen. | n great cause | 大義 news1 nf20 |
| gen. | illegal cause | 不法の原因 |
| gen. | n immediate or proximate cause | 近因 (きんいん) |
| gen. | n imperial or royal cause | 王事 |
| gen. | n incantation to rid a child of insects traditionally believed to cause disease | 虫封じ |
| gen. | internal cause | 内因 |
| gen. | n vs investigation to determine the cause | 原因究明 (of) |
| law | just cause | 正当な理由 |
| gen. | n just cause | 名分 news2 nf33 (めいぶん) |
| gen. | n justifiable cause for noncompliance with the law | 違法性阻却事由 |
| gen. | n law of cause and effect | 因果律 (ingaritsu) |
| gen. | main cause | 元兇 |
| gen. | n main cause | 主要因 |
| gen. | main cause | 元凶 news1 nf17 |
| gen. | n adj-no main cause | 要因 ichi1 news1 nf03 (yōin) |
| gen. | n man who causes the weather to become sunny when he gets out | 晴男 |
| gen. | n man who causes the weather to become sunny when he gets out | 晴れ男 |
| gen. | n man whose presence seems to cause rain | 雨男 |
| gen. | n material cause | 質料因 |
| gen. | exp n method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root causes of a problem | なぜなぜ分析 |
| gen. | n vs adj-no yoji mistaking the cause for the end | 本末顛倒 |
| gen. | n vs adj-no yoji mistaking the cause for the end | 本末転倒 news2 nf26 |
| gen. | n moral or political commitment to a cause | アンガージュマン |
| gen. | multiple cause accident | 多重原因事故 |
| gen. | multiple cause accident | 多重故障事故 |
| gen. | n dying of natural causes | 自然死 |
| gen. | n noble cause | 金看板 |
| gen. | exp not enough to cause a problem | 何の事はない |
| gen. | exp not enough to cause a problem | 何の事は無い |
| gen. | exp not enough to cause a problem | 何のことはない |
| gen. | n yoji not sparing one's life for a worthy cause | 不惜身命 |
| gen. | n supposed noxious gas originally believed to cause fever | 瘴気 |
| gen. | exp yoji one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen | 寸善尺魔 |
| law | performance for illegal cause | 不法原因給付 (ふほうげんいんきゅうふ) |
| gen. | adj-na n person that annoys or causes trouble | 人騒がせ |
| gen. | n yoji pressing one's own cause | 自己顕示 news2 nf47 |
| gen. | primary cause | 原因 (げんいん) |
| gen. | primary cause | 要因 (yōin) |
| gen. | n primary cause | 主因 news1 nf15 |
| gen. | n principal cause | 主原因 |
| law | probable cause | 相当の理由 (刑事の場合) |
| gen. | n protozoan parasite of the small intestine that causes giardiasis | ランブル鞭毛虫 |
| gen. | n proximate cause | 直接要因 |
| gen. | n proximate cause | 至近要因 |
| reliabil. | root cause analysis | 根本原因分析 |
| gen. | n secondary cause | 従因 |
| gen. | n secondary cause | 副因 (ふくいん) |
| gen. | n six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine | 六淫 (wind, cold, fire/heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer) |
| gen. | skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever | 風花 |
| gen. | n skin-whitening agent that may cause vitiligo-like symptoms | ロドデノール |
| gen. | exp small sacrifice in a great cause | 大事の前の小事 |
| gen. | n soldier or army dedicated to a righteous cause | 義兵 |
| gen. | n source, cause of an accident | 事故原因 |
| gen. | n the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease | 癩菌 oK (leprosy) |
| gen. | n adj-no the cause of a disease | 病因 news2 nf45 |
| rel., budd. | n three causes of Buddha nature | 三因 |
| rel., budd. | n three causes of Buddha nature | 三因仏性 |
| gen. | exp v1 to be suspected without cause | 痛くもない腹を探られる |
| gen. | n train derailment due to a concurrence of causes | 競合脱線 |
| rel., budd. | n two causes | 二因 |
| gen. | n underlying cause | 遠因 news2 nf27 |
| law | without due cause | みだりに |
| gen. | exp adv uk without cause | 訳も無く |
| gen. | exp adv uk without cause | 訳もなく |
| gen. | n woman who causes the weather to become sunny when she goes out | 晴女 |
| gen. | n woman who causes the weather to become sunny when she goes out | 晴れ女 |
| gen. | n woman whose presence seems to cause rain | 雨女 |