English term
31 years experience with thanks.
Native in: Japanese (Variant: Standard-Japan) 
Works in: Japanese to English, English to Japanese
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In the above case can ; be appropriate? Or just . is better?
Thank you for your help.
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Tony M
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| 4 +4 | : (or .) colon or full stop |
Christine Andersen
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Taña Dalglish
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Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, GILLES MEUNIER, Tony M
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use a colon here
You might arguably do better even to use just a comma instead.
But the sentence is rather long, and i'd be inclined to use a full-stop to split it up more, in which case, you could then start again with "One of these parts is to..."
Please note that there are several other issues with your text as it stands.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: and yes, a few corrections and/or rephrasing needed
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Thanks, Yvonne!
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Christine Andersen
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Thanks, Christine!
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Björn Vrooman
: I should probably note that one rule you can find in both the AP Stylebook (journalism) and the APA Style Guide (scholarly publications) is that (in the US) you capitalize the first word after the colon if it marks the beginning of a complete sentence.
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Thanks, Björn!
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the message, not just the words
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Danish to English, English
: (or .) colon or full stop
… FUTOKO, which consists of two parts: one was a proposal…
If the sentence ´feels´ too long, a full stop . would also be quite appropriate, followed, of course, by an upper-case letter.
In English you do not use an upper-case letter after colon or semi-colon (: or ;) - my source language does.
For a good explanation of punctuation, I can warmly recommend RL Trask: Penguin Guide to Punctuation ISBN 13: 978-0-140-51366-0
The section on colon and semicolon explains that
The colon is used to indicate that what follows is an explanation or elaboration of what precedes it.
Later
The semicolon (;) is used to join two complete sentences into a single written sentence when all of the following three conditions are met:
1. The two sentences are felt to be too closely related to be separated by a full stop;
2. There is no connecting word which would require a comma, such as AND or BUT;
3. The special conditions requiring a colon are absent.
The section on commas is IMHO brilliant, and the book costs very little on Amazon...
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B D Finch
: With the exception that when a colon is used to introduce bullet points, each bullet point can start with a capital letter.
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Of course. Thanks!
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Yvonne Gallagher
: and with BDF
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Reference comments
Jamaica
Translating the Ideas Behind the Words
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
Ref.
The investigative committee conducted a survey on the situation and recommended taking a countermeasure against FUTOKO, which consists of two parts: one was a proposal to build a stable school life, and the other was to support non-attending students.
This is an example of the use of the colon (:)
PDF REFRAMING FUTŌKŌ (SCHOOL NON-ATTENDANCE) IN JAPAN – A ...
https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au › dspace › bitstream
by SF Wong - 2008 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
Nov 5, 2007 - *** futōkō movement framing through two sets of factors: first, changes in .... everyday life of its citizens, including education, the judicial system, the medical ... activists, and those who take part in the movement as futōkō citizens. ......*** Relocation of Tōkyō Shūre from a small unit to the present building in Ouji.
I agree with Tony. There are several other options.
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