official recognition; authorization; authorisation; licence; license; accreditation
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
bulging; swelling (e.g. with water); loose-fitting or baggy (clothing); bubbling; foaming
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
fat; grease; blubber; lard; suet
rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)
to jest; to clown (around)
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
bank; banking institution
watch stand; watcher's seat; attendant's booth (e.g. at an onsen)
Tōkyō Nichinichi Shimbun (1872-1943, became the Mainichi Shimbun)
civilization; civilisation; enlightenment
advertisement; advertising; announcement; notice
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-
maritime; marine transportation
Kabutochō (neighbourhood of Nihonbashi, Tokyo, where the Tokyo Stock Exchange is located); Tokyo Stock Exchange
second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company
instantly; immediately; equals; means; oneness (of two opposing things); inseparability
1,000,000; one million; million; many
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
cooperation; collaboration
doer; performer; protagonist (in noh or kyogen); hero; speculator (in trading)
together with; same; both; all; including ...
age 16 (of a girl); pubescence; age 64 (of a man); breaking of the hymen (during sex); defloration