| Subject | English | Japanese |
| gen. | exp A child is an everlasting responsibility to parents | 子は三界の首枷 |
| gen. | n yoji a question an issue of where responsibility liability lies | 責任問題 |
| gen. | n ability to fulfil one's responsibilities | 責任能力 (せきにんのうりょく) |
| gen. | n one's administrative responsibilities | 政治責任 |
| gen. | n administrative responsibility | 経営責任 (けいえいせきにん) |
| gen. | n area of responsibility | 責任範囲 |
| gen. | n vs yoji avoidance of responsibility | 責任回避 (せきにんかいひ) |
| gen. | n vs avoiding or dodging responsibility | 責任のがれ |
| gen. | n vs avoiding or dodging responsibility | 責任逃れ |
| gen. | bear a lot of responsibility | 荷が重い |
| gen. | bear the responsibility of | 責任を持つ |
| gen. | n vs bearing entrusted responsibilities | 受任 |
| gen. | boundary of responsibility | 責任分界点 |
| gen. | burden of responsibility | 荷重 (kajū) |
| gen. | n vs charging someone with responsibility | 負託 news2 nf26 |
| gen. | n yoji collective responsibility | 連帯責任 (れんたいせきにん) |
| gen. | n company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world | 代表取締社長 |
| gen. | n corporate responsibility | 企業責任 |
| gen. | n corporate social responsibility | 企業の社会的責任 |
| gen. | n criminal responsibility | 責任能力 (せきにんのうりょく) |
| gen. | n diminished responsibility | 心神耗弱 news2 nf45 spec2 |
| gen. | n environmental responsibility | 環境責任 |
| slang | evade responsibilities | ばっくれる |
| slang | evading one's responsibilities | ばっくれ |
| gen. | n executive responsibility | 管理責任 (かんりせきにん) |
| gen. | n vs adj-no exemption from responsibility | 免責 news1 nf21 (めんせき) |
| gen. | expenses sharing responsibility | 経費負担区分 |
| gen. | extended producer responsibility | 拡大製造者責任 |
| gen. | extended producer responsibility | 拡大生産者責任 |
| gen. | feel happy after having been relieved of a responsibility | 荷が下りる |
| gen. | n friendship's responsibilities | 友義 |
| gen. | fulfill responsibilities | 責任を果たす |
| gen. | fulfill responsibility | 責を果たす |
| gen. | n full responsibility | 全責任 (ぜんせきにん) |
| gen. | n person with heavy responsibilities | 重役 ichi1 news1 nf17 |
| gen. | n vs heavy responsibility | 重任 |
| gen. | n heavy responsibility | 重荷 news1 nf15 (おもこ) |
| gen. | n heavy responsibility | 大任 news2 nf45 |
| gen. | n heavy responsibility | 重責 news1 nf24 |
| gen. | n holding a position of responsibility | 役付き |
| gen. | n joint responsibility | 共同責任 (きょうどうせきにん) |
| gen. | n lack of responsibility | 無答責 |
| gen. | adj-no n lacking responsibilities | 無役 |
| gen. | lay responsibility on someone | 負わせる |
| gen. | n letter of responsibility | 犯行声明文 (for a crime) |
| gen. | n management responsibility | 経営責任 (けいえいせきにん) |
| gen. | n moral responsibility | 結果責任 (けっかせきにん) |
| gen. | n on one's own responsibility | 自己責任 (じこせきにん) |
| el., econ. | peak responsibility factor | 尖頭時責任電力比率 |
| el., econ. | peak responsibility method | 尖頭責任標準法 |
| gen. | person bearing responsibility | にない手 |
| gen. | person bearing responsibility | 担い手 news1 nf13 |
| gen. | n person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area | 担当部長 |
| gen. | place the blame or burden of responsibility on someone else | 被ける |
| gen. | n responsibilities pertaining to one's work | 職責 news2 nf28 (しょくせき) |
| comp., MS | responsibility account code segment | 職責勘定コード セグメント (A segment of a general ledger account code that corresponds to a category within the overall structure of the organization, such as location, division, department, area, task, project, or product) |
| construct. | responsibility assignment matrix | 責任分担表 (せきにん・ぶんたん・ひょう) |
| law | responsibility for protection | 保護責任 |
| gen. | n responsibility for the consequences | 結果責任 (けっかせきにん) |
| gen. | n responsibility for wording of an article | 文責 |
| gen. | n responsibility for one's words | 言責 |
| comp., MS | responsibility matrix | 担当一覧 (A document that explicitly calls out the individual team members who are tasked with executing, reviewing, and approving work packages within a project) |
| gen. | n responsibility or liability for a crime | 罪責 |
| comp., MS | responsibility segment | 職責セグメント (A segment of a general ledger account code that corresponds to a category within the overall structure of the organization, such as location, division, department, area, task, project, or product) |
| gen. | n responsibility-taking system | 責任体制 |
| gen. | n obsc role and responsibility | 役責 |
| gen. | rules of responsibility | 自己責任原則 (じこせきにんげんそく) |
| gen. | n self-responsibility | 自己責任 (じこせきにん) |
| gen. | n sense of responsibility | 責任感 news1 nf16 |
| gen. | n shareholder responsibility | 株主責任 |
| gen. | n sharing of responsibilities | 責任分担 (せきにんぶんたん) |
| gen. | n yoji shift the responsibility for something on to | 責任転嫁 news2 nf46 (someone, せきにんてんか) |
| gen. | shirk a responsibility | 責任を避ける |
| gen. | shirk responsibility | 責任を逃れる |
| gen. | n vs yoji shirking one's responsibility | 責任回避 (せきにんかいひ) |
| gen. | shoulder responsibility | 責任を担う |
| gen. | social responsibility report | 社会的責任の報告 |
| gen. | take clear responsibility for | けじめを付ける (mistakes, etc.) |
| gen. | take on a responsibility | 押っ被さる |
| gen. | take on a responsibility | 被さる |
| gen. | take responsibility | 仕切る news2 nf29 (しきる) |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 背負う ichi1 news2 nf37 |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 脊負う ik |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 負う ichi1 news1 nf13 |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 責任をとる |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 責任を取る |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 請負う |
| gen. | take responsibility for | 請け負う news1 nf17 |
| gen. | take the responsibility | 責任を持って果たす (for an action) |
| gen. | n adj-no taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself | 自前 news1 nf11 |
| gen. | n taking responsibility | 責任体制 |
| gen. | n vs taking responsibility | 引責 news1 nf14 |
| gen. | n taking responsibility for | 荷い |
| gen. | n taking responsibility for | 荷ない |
| gen. | n taking responsibility for | 担い |
| gen. | n vs yoji taking responsibility upon oneself | 引責辞任 (and resigning) |
| gen. | n yoji the "three noes principle" of no drive indolence, no interest indifference, and no sense of responsibility irresponsibility, the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s | 三無主義 |
| gen. | to be forced to bear responsibility and resign from one's position | 詰腹 |
| gen. | to be forced to bear responsibility and resign from one's position | 詰め腹 |
| gen. | exp v1 to be forced to bear the responsibility and resign | 詰め腹を切らされる |
| gen. | transfer of responsibility | 権限の委譲 |
| gen. | unable to cope with one's responsibilities | 堪えない |
| gen. | n war responsibility | 戦争責任 |
| gen. | with limited responsibility | 身がる |
| gen. | with limited responsibility | 身軽 ichi1 news2 nf32 |