payment; provision; benefit; performance
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
five times (as much); quintuple; fivefold
nursing; care; caregiving; caring
double; twice (as much); twofold
when it becomes; when it comes to
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
our country; our land; one's own country
debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase
failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
in comparison to; rather than
serious; severe; grave; acute
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
ready wit; quick wits; resourcefulness; raising (money)
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
to say something better left unsaid; to go too far (by saying something rude)
adds force or indicates command
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
future (usually near); prospects
elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
establishing; founding; setting up; organizing; establishment
person in charge; senior staff; manager; chief; head
planning; project; plan; design
government service; the bureaucracy
pleased to make your acquaintance
breakthrough (research, etc.); breach; opening
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
stand; stall; booth; kiosk; store
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case