current expenses; operating costs
mutual agreement; understanding; common consent
sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
cannot help (doing); have no choice but to; am compelled to; am obliged to; it is incumbent upon (me) to
true intention; underlying motive
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends
provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant
up to now; so far; traditional; conventional; usual
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
not insignificant; not to be sneezed at
8000; eight thousand; many
prosperous conditions; healthy economy
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
expansion; swelling; increase; growth
shrinkage; contraction; economy; retrenchment
place; room; margin; scope
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); rin (monetary unit; 0.001 yen)
interest (on a loan, deposit, etc.)
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; driving; working (capital, etc.)
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
very popular; highly favoured
mourning; mourning period; anniversary of one's death
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
from right to left; in one ear and out the other; nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado
trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
unreasonable; irrational; outrageous; absurd
seen it once, seen it all; a single instance indicates what happens all the time; one case gives you an idea of what always happens
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
writing paper; stationery; notepaper
two sheets (pieces) (of paper)