How to say "involvement" in Japanese

• コミットCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers involvement as willing commitment: pledging oneself to a project, task, or goal and seeing it through. A katakana loanword from English 'commit', so it suits active, purposeful engagement rather than mere association.
• 巻き添えまきぞえCommon
  nounInvolvement you never wanted: being dragged into someone else's trouble and suffering for it. Think of collateral damage — the bystander caught up in a scandal or dispute.
  君きみばかりか僕ぼくまで巻き添まきぞえを食くらった。↗

  Not only you but also I was involved.
• 連座れんざCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers implication in a crime: being implicated alongside an offender. For general 'involvement' this is seldom the word you want — it belongs to criminal implication.
• 絡みからみCommon
  nounCovers involvement as entanglement: tangled links or dealings with a person or matter. Suits contexts where parties are mixed up with each other, the connection itself being the point.
• 介在かいざいCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbInvolvement as interposition: a third thing existing between two parties, standing between them or intervening in their relationship. Fits when the involvement is literally something coming between two sides.

Choose by flavor: 「コミット」 for active commitment to a task, 「巻き添え」 for being dragged into trouble, 連座 for implication in a crime, 「絡み」 for entangling personal connections, and 介在 for something interposed between two parties.

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• コミットcommitting (oneself to)
• 巻き添えまきぞえgetting mixed up in
• 連座れんざimplication (in a crime)
• 絡みからみlinkage
• 介在かいざいexisting (between)
• 関わり合いかかわりあいrelationship
• 纏綿てんめんentanglement
• 係り合いかかりあいrelationship
• 連累れんるいcomplicity
• 巻き添いまきぞいgetting mixed up in
• 累るいtrouble
• 当事者性とうじしゃせいbeing an involved party
• 関係かんけいparticipation
• 同座どうざinvolvement
• 交際こうさい(romantic) involvement