company; corporation; firm; one's workplace
company president; manager; director
society; public; community; social studies
company; firm; (Shinto) shrine; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.; incorporated body
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
social; societal; societary
social life; social intercourse
working adult; full-fledged member of society
head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
within a company; in-house; within a shrine; shrine precincts
joining a company; getting a job with a company; starting work at a company
something said for politeness' sake; diplomatic language; honeyed words; lip service; empty compliment
company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
underworld; underside of society
stock company; corporation; kabushiki kaisha; KK
your company; your shrine
going to work (e.g. in the morning); coming to work
security firm; security company
president's office; director's office
another company; other company
regular employee; permanent employee; full-time employee
corporate drone; corporate slave
shrine office; office of a Shinto shrine
one's company; company one works for; in-house; belonging to the company
this company; this firm; this shrine
all companies; each company
new employee; freshman employee; new hire
social status; social position; social standing
social meeting place; watering hole
resignation; leaving office; leaving work (e.g. at the end of the day)
(main building of a) Shinto shrine
social studies (school subject)
learning about the world; preparation for life in the community; work experience
company name; name of a company
rehabilitation (in society)
international community; international society
the same company; the said firm; the same (Shinto) shrine; the said shrine
grand shrine; famous shrine; Izumo Grand Shrine
antisocial; contrary to public order or morality; offensive; sociopathic; immoral; obscene
company housing; housing provided by one's company
social dance; ballroom dancing
brokerage; brokerage firm; broking house; securities company
private military company; mercenary group
shipping company; freight company; transport company
real estate company; real estate firm; property firm
civilized society; civilised society
working for a company; being employed by a company
company name; corporate name
educational visit (e.g. by a class); field trip
maintenance company; management company; proprietary company
on the way home from work; returning from work
rank-and-file member of staff; ordinary employee; low-grade employee
railroad corporation; railway company
disparate society; stratified society
local news section; the city desk
temporary staff recruitment agency; employment agency
female company president; female CEO
class society; class-based society; hierarchical society
company outing; company retreat
company management; managing a company
social order; public order
temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
undertaker's office; funeral home; funeral parlor
staff identity card; employee ID card
(our) company; (my) company; small company; small shrine
social page (of newspaper); local news page
person unfit for society; misfit
resigning from a company on marriage (of a woman)
large company; major corporation; company with over 500 million yen in capital or over 20 billion yen in liabilities
(private) investigation company; research agency
male-dominated society; patriarchal society
office romance; office love affair
staff cafeteria; staff canteen
travel agent; travel agency
vertically structured society; hierarchical society
the whole company; all the companies
compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison; as I see it; by my estimate
state; country; nation; tutelary deity; god of grain
company fortunes; future of a company
governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines
president and chief executive officer
idea commonly accepted by society; socially accepted idea
social conditions; social situation; state of society; social landscape; social climate
The Asahi Shimbun Company
role of a company president
order from the company president
all staff; all employees; all workers
underground world; underground society
telecommunications company; telco
rival (company); competitor
other companies in the same business; rival firms
political organization (organisation)
the socially vulnerable; the weak of society; socially disadvantaged people
social unrest; public anxiety
social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
corporate culture; company climate or spirit; the way a company does things
competing companies; rival companies
social consciousness; social awareness
social progress; getting ahead in society; moving up in the world
family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis
social structure; social organization; fabric of society
editorial; leading article; leader
test for a position in a company; company entrance test
young CEO; young company president
financing company; credit firm
in-house manufactured goods
business affairs of a company; clerical business of a Shinto shrine
building company; construction company; architectural firm
state socialism; Nazism; national socialism
returning to the office; returning to one's workplace
socio-economics; social economy
branch shrine; corporate spin-off; split-off business
(company's) initiation or welcoming ceremony
dummy corporation; front company; shell corporation
company secret; information for internal use only
to go to the office; to be at work
your company; your shrine
limited company (company structure for small businesses; abolished in 2006); YK
former president (of a company); former CEO
fly (on trousers); flies; zipper
steamship (shipping) company
guiding precepts of a company; company credo; corporate philosophy
criminal groups and individuals; groups and individuals who seek economic profit through violence, force and fraudulent means; violent criminals, extortionists and racketeers; organized crime; (lit.) anti-social forces
sales company; distributor
corporate group; group businesses; group company; affiliated company
controlled society; regulated society
subordinate shrine; professional entertainer
certain company; unnamed company
Dark Ocean Society (1881-1946); Black Ocean Society
front of (the main building of) a shrine
land owned by a Shinto shrine; land owned by a company
private company; private corporation
telco; telecommunications company; common carrier
temporary employment agency; personnel placement agency; staffing agency; temp agency; temping agency
aging society; ageing society
managing director; president of a company (US)
socialization; socialisation
owner of a company; head of a company
belle of society; queen of high society
person who has recently entered the workforce (after completing education); new working adult
the underworld; lower ranks of society
academic meritocracy; education-conscious society; society that places (excessive) emphasis on academic records
social responsibility; social accountability
social work; social project; social enterprise; social welfare service
rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity)
rank-and-file employee; regular employee
gōdō gaisha; Japanese LLC; GK; form of business modeled after the American limited liability company
antisocial; contrary to public order or morality
male-dominated society; patriarchal society
spirit of dedication to one's company
Mainichi Newspapers Co. Ltd (Japanese newspaper company)
company that exploits its employees (e.g. through unpaid overtime)
outside director; independent director
one's fellow workers; fellow employees
bogus company; paper company
corporate bond; corporate debenture
social environment; social conditions
Council of Social Welfare
social relationship; social context
inside and outside the company
corporate juridical person; incorporated body; corporation
village community (esp. hierarchical, conservative and exclusive); insular community; closed society; ring; cartel; clique
Corporate Reorganization Act
social conditions; social circumstances
colleague; company friend
company person; company man; company woman; corporate soldier
unsociable; retiring; solitude-loving
social contract; social compact; FIS xref
automobile society; motorized society
economy and society; economic aspects of society
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (name of a publishing company)
mobile phone operator; mobile network carrier; cellular company
"tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal or autumnal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests)
joining a company as a mid-career hire
company information session
functioning of society; functions of society
cost of social security; social welfare spending
(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
company song; corporate anthem
made by one's (own) company
Japan Socialist Party (1945-1996; succeeded by the Social Democratic Party of Japan); JSP
company information; corporate profile; company brochure
subcontractor; subcontracting company
baseball tournament between non-professional teams sponsored by corporations
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)
employee training; employee education
one-state socialism (Stalinist theory); socialism in one country
societal mood; social context
social class; social strata; social scale
general incorporated association
person unfit for society; misfit
day room (e.g. on a liner); lounge; social hall
shrine dedicated to the spirits of the war dead
auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine)
travel agent; travel agency
communal society; community
employee discount; corporate discount; company discount
social contract theory (e.g. Rousseau's)
competitors' products; others on the market
land owned by a Shinto shrine
animation studio; animation production company
hydrogen economy; hydrogen energy based society
marriage between coworkers
associate member; junior employee
company split-up; spinning off of a separate company
public-service corporation; charitable corporation
guarantor; guarantor company
top-ranked firm; top-tier corporation; leading company; prestigious company; stellar company
local-news reporter; police reporter; city news reporter
antisociality; antisocial nature
inter-office mail; intra-company mail
history of a company; one's career with a company; length of service in a company
social right; economic right
adulterous love affair with someone at work
industrial company; business firm
Socialist Masses Party (1932-1940)
(post-Heian) shrine dedicated to Amaterasu
becoming an issue of public concern; becoming a societal problem
priest attached to a shrine
employee discount; corporate discount; company discount
listed company (on a stock exchange); publicly traded company
house brand; (a company's) own brand; store brand
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)
Japanese Red Cross Society; JRC
mutual aid or credit finance company
society based on mutual self-interest
security firm; security company
employment agency; staffing agency; personnel placement agency
company-internal information
licensed social worker; certified social worker
amateur team; non-professional team; company team
social ease (facility, skills); being a good mixer
Bijutsu Shuppan-sha (publisher)
corporate law; company law; Companies Act
organized crime syndicate; criminal group; (lit.) antisocial group
super-ageing society (aging)
representative partner; senior partner; senior employee empowered to represent a company
shrine ranking (abolished in 1946); company ranking
company visit; visit to a prospective employer
(electric) railroad company
Japanese Council of Social Welfare
social contract theory (e.g. Rousseau's)
social security number (USA); SSN
Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area
attempting to change one's image when one starts working
family corporation; family company; affiliated concern
government-controlled corporation
British East India Company
Socialist and Communist Parties
go-getter employee; hard-driving employee; workaholic employee
day one goes to work (as opposed to a holiday, working from home, etc.); office day; in-office workday
company needing reorganization (reorganisation)
social credit system (China); social credit
aging society; ageing society; graying society
antisocial personality disorder; ASPD
low-cost carrier; LCC; low-cost airline
super-aged society; superannuated society
devotion to one's company
special consideration for non-traditional (older) students
social welfare service corporation
social brain; social brains
wholesale company; wholesaler
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; Soviet Union
demutualization; becoming incorporated
resigning because of marriage
licensed social insurance consultant; labor and social security attorney
Seibundo Shinkosha (publishing company based in Tokyo)
company seal; company stamp
sales company; distributor
Nihon Bungeisha (publisher)
society where IT related gadgets are prevalent and their function transparent (from "ubiquitous computing")
transport company; forwarding agency
Society for the Study of Social Policy
social inequality; social disparity; social divide
licensed social insurance consultant; labor and social security attorney
non-fulltime employee; non-permanent employee
(material) recycling society; recycling-oriented society
official editorial viewpoint of a newspaper
contract employee (esp. one rehired after mandatory retirement)
company expenses; at company expense
sociolect; social dialect
unlimited company; unlimited partnership
foreign corporation; overseas company
corporate structure; company structure
social welfare service; social services; social work
investment company; investment firm; hedge fund firm
training of new employees
president and chief executive officer; president and CEO
social survey; social research
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
subsidiary of a subsidiary; sub-subsidiary; second-tier subsidiary
shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki
interoffice mail; in-house mail
denomination of a Shinto shrine; company name
Doushisha Women's University
Taisha-kyo (sect of Shinto; renamed Izumo Oyashiro-kyo in 1951)
Chugoku Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company); China News Service (news agency)
specified purpose company; specific purpose company
anxiety or stress-induced inability to go to work
Musha Incident (Taiwan; 1930); Wushe Uprising
power supply company; power distribution company
controlling company; parent company
Nazism; national socialism
affiliated company; sister company
limited liability company (US, Australia, etc.); LLC
social educational facilities; community center
private railway or bus line
background check for links to organized crime
Burakumin rights organization (1922-1942)
party clothes; evening clothes
Sogensha, Inc. (publisher)
being in the office; being at work; working for a company; being an employee
oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine)
Democratic Socialist Party
club (for adults, as opposed to for university students)
Izumo Oyashiro-kyo (sect of Shinto); Izumo Taisha-kyo
unlisted company (on a stock exchange)
antisocial personality disorder
Japan Travel Bureau Foundation (JTB)
Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development (JPC-SED)
the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period
work experience; practical study in the real world
Japan Electronic Computer Company
Japan Monopoly Corporation
combined company; merged company
extortionist that blackmail corporations; corporate shakedown artist
phenomenological sociology
Japan Post Holdings Co. Ltd
Japan Post Co., Ltd.; JP Post
pre-literate society; non-literate society
Zenkoku Suiheisha (Burakumin rights organization; 1922-1942); National Levelers' Association
social-anxiety disorder; SAD
representative executive vice-president
person who is employed but has nothing to do at their company
Basic Act on Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society
Poplar Co. Ltd. (convenience store chain)
wholesale company; wholesaler
person suspected of multiple wrongdoings
shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)
district-level town (Vietnam)
Japan Post (2003-2007) (abbr)
prefectural shrine (of prefectures other than Kyoto and Osaka)
bond redemption; debenture redemption
(school) field trip; educational visit (e.g. by a class)
small company headquarters located in Tokyo simply for name value
mochibun gaisha; company structure which functions like a partnership
sociology of language; sociolinguistics
Japan College of Social Work
previous company (where one worked); previous employer; previous job
Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Japan Society for Child Study
exhibiting company (at a trade show, etc.)
(coalition of) the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Socialist Party and New Party Sakigake (1994-1998)
Soshisha Publishing Co., Ltd.
Japanese Society of Social Psychology; JSSP
shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki as of the highest rank
Japan Sociological Society
The Graduate School of Information & Communication
affiliated company accounted for by the equity-method
Japan Society of Family Sociology; JSFS
Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies; JSIS
people's socialist republic
issuing company (e.g. of a credit card)
Japan society of Educational Sociology
Japan Society for the Study of Adult and Community Education; JSSACE
socially necessary labour time
UN Economic and Social Council
Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology; JASC
Japanese Association of Labor Sociology
worker with a fixed term contract of employment
UN Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic and Social Council
established by the company
Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare; JSSSW
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (defunct)
in-house shipping; in-house parcel delivery
Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology; JAMS
Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd.; CJIAC
Nippon Idou Tsushin Corporation; IDO
national shrine of major grade
Social Insurance Training Institute
Basic Act for Gender Equal Society
non-dividend-paying company
Advanced Information and Telecommunication Society Headquarters; Headquarters for Promotion of Advanced Information and Communications Society
social camouflage; autistic masking
Nippon Information and Communication Corporation
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; NTT
worker with a fixed term contract of employment
commutative justice; justitia commutativa
Central News Agency (Taiwanese news agency)
Matsushita Electronic Components Corporation
Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology
Nihon Keizai Shimbun Incorporated
Japan Freight Railway Company
regional Bell operating company; RBOC
Japan Association of Regional and Community Studies; JARCS
International Sociological Association
society in which individuals are isolated and have weak personal links between each other
new social infrastructure
long-distance telephone company
Hokkaido Social Welfare Association
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.; JNFL
(power, electricity) transmission company
front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls)
Social Democratic Federation
national shrine of middle grade
full parent company; wholly-owning parent company; sole parent company
social implementation; using the results of research and development to solve social problems
Kantoh Sociological Society
worker with a fixed term contract of employment
non-existence of a business corporation
International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
Kansai Sociological Association
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; ASSR
Okinawa Socialist Masses Party
coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito
great old-timer of the firm
person unfit for society; misfit
manager promoted from in-house office worker
Regional Bell Operating Company (USA); RBOC
Agence France-Presse; AFP
Society of Economic Sociology; SOES
Hokkaido Sociological Association; HSA
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
surviving company (in a merger); surviving corporation
public company; publicly listed company; publicly traded company; (Japanese) stock company that does not impose restrictions on share transfers
Yamaha Motor Company Limited
company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
external (to a company) communications
Nachi-Fujikoshi Corporation
UN Research Institute for Social Development
leaving at the convenience of the company
(stock) company that has a board of directors
Japanese Society for Environmental Sociology
social business; social enterprise
proxy application company
pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan
Japanese Council of Social Welfare
hydrogen economy; hydrogen energy based society
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Limited Liability Companies Act
antisocial personality disorder; ASPD
Central Social Insurance Medical Council
surviving company (in a merger)
company with a committee governance structure (e.g. auditing, appointment, compensation)
Social Welfare and Medical Service Corporation
International Social Security Association
absorbed company; merged corporation
absorbed company; merged corporation
Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.; TEPCO
Soviet Socialist Republic; SSR
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Georgian SSR; GSSR
affiliated company; sister company
monoline insurance company; monoline insurer
multiline insurance company; multiline insurer
corporate social responsibility; CSR
Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary; Green Goddess (GG)
Nazism; national socialism
National Economic and Social Development Board
marriage-oriented society (in which most people are married, usu. at a young age)
internal blog; intranet blog
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
New Socialist Party of Japan
Bond Underwriter's Association
dissocial personality disorder
Space Communications Corporation
Resolution Trust Corporation
cooperative sales company
social anxiety disorder; SAD
Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd.; KIAC
company president's daughter
Sankei Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)
three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)
unsecured (corporate) debenture
Toshiba Information Equipments Co., Ltd.; TIE
Toshiba Information Systems
Meiji Dairies Corporation
Social Development Research Institute
International Federation of Red Cross
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Kobe Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
academic socialism; professorial socialism
asset holding company (esp. Commonwealth countries)
visiting three shrines in the beginning of the year
national shrine of minor grade
fascia signage; company nameplate
public corporation set up to administer a public facility
rival company; rival corporation
multiple-system operator; multi-system operator; MSO; operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems
National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Social Insurance Medical Fee Payment Fund (abbr)
Okinawa Television Broadcasting Corporation
Party of European Socialists
change of company; change of employer; change of firm; convertible bond
three main Kumano shrines (Kumano Hongu Taisha, Kumano Nachi Taisha, Kumano Hayatama Taisha)
bond with stock purchase warrant
Social Insurance Medical Fee Payment Fund
Toyo Netsu Kogyo Kaisha Limited
bond with warrant attached; warrant bond; WB
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.; IHI
European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company EADS NV
Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
Magen David Adom (Israel's emergency medical service)
U.S. postal service; UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
Xinhua News Agency; New China News Agency
Plebian Society (ca. 1904)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
returning to a company where one has worked before
blue-collar; blue-collar worker (employee)
Heibonsha Ltd (publishers)
individual company; each company
spring "tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests)
British Steel Corporation; BSC
shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
residential community (administrative district of the People's Republic of China)
company-provided (tool, uniform, etc.)
Inter-American Investment Corporation
prefectural shrine (of Kyoto or Osaka)
shrine crest; crest representing a Shinto shrine
name post outside a shrine (usu. a stone pillar)
shrine whose rituals are attended by an imperial envoy (who presents offerings)
(Shinto) shrines and (Buddhist) temples