Kamo eggplant (Solanum melongena); round variety of eggplant famously grown in Kyoto
pickle store; pickle shop; pickle dealer
inspector; gauger; passer
quenching; hardening; tempering
allocation; assignment; allotment
automotive industry; motor vehicle industry
precision machinery; precision machine; precision tool; precision tools; precision equipment
poor business performance; economic slump
holding out a little longer
reasonable (person); obedient (e.g. child); doing what one is told
workforce reduction; personnel cut
influx of South Korean pop culture (into Japan)
sea bream (Sparidae); porgy; tai (species of reddish-brown Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
mid-year gift; summer gift
pointed knife; logging; cutting; (beef) scraps; starting to speak; extraction (of a portion of a media file)
prescribed form (of writing); format
persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story
to draw closed the curtain (of a theatre, etc.); (fig.) to come to an end
burr (e.g. on a machined edge)
agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)
(it was) no bother at all; not at all; it was nothing
new employee; freshman employee; new hire
drinking habitually; being fond of (a drink)
to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)