彼は前世で何をしていたのだろうか。

I wonder what he was in his past life.

こんなに気が合うなんて、前世で兄弟だったのかもしれない。

We get along so well that maybe we were brothers in a past life.

占い師に前世は武士だったと言われた。

A fortune-teller told me I was a samurai in my previous life.

この寺には前世の遺風が今も残っている。

The customs of a former age still survive at this temple.

前世の人々が築いた文化を後世に伝えなければならない。

We must pass on to future generations the culture built by people of former ages.

その制度は前世の弊害を改めるために設けられた。

The system was established to correct the abuses of the previous era.