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cloth to wipe the sweat off

1

Mana

2

Phobia (The Kinks album)

1

unpaid work

1

graduate-school graduate

1

surplus; excess

1

flexible-hours system; flextime; flexitime

1

housework

1

records; transactions

1

parody

1

window cleaning

1

contract marriage; marriage by contract

3

marriage due to unintended pregnancy; shotgun wedding

1

clinical psychologist; clinical psychotherapist

1

deputy section or department manager

1

thin strips of kombu cooked in soy sauce, etc. then dried

2

run (in a stocking)

1

branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum); simplestem bur-reed

8

de facto marriage; common-law marriage

4

marrying to become a housewife; (lit.) permanent employment (once one becomes a housewife)

1

health insurance

1

seasonal word (in haiku)

1

(bringing to a) perfect end; (rounding off with a) crowning achievement; successful conclusion; triumphant finish

1

temporary staff recruitment agency; employment agency

1

housekeeper

1

half-holiday; taking half of the day off

1

terms and conditions

1

sending back; return to sender

1

full time

1

job hunting; job searching

1

old Japanese-style house

3

lunchbox made with loving care by one's wife

1

like father, like son; (lit.) you can't fight blood

1

support (e.g. of one's dependents); maintenance

1

lover; boyfriend; girlfriend; soul mate

1

temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

3

monthly income

1

part of a building where water is circulated (kitchen, bathroom, etc.); wet area

1

saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot

2

senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem

1

complete defeat; losing all of one's matches; finishing the tournament with no wins

1

to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time

1

public relations section or department

1

extra cost; extra charge

1

to Google; to search for information on the WWW

1

Natsuki

1

asking for the moon; pining for what one doesn't have; thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence; asking for too much; asking for the impossible

1

limbless wooden doll; kokeshi doll

1

bitch

1

after tax income; net income

1