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office romance; workplace romance; love affair with colleague

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promissory note

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SMS; short message service

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perfect obsession; personal fixation; addiction to (something matching one's tastes)

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red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)

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white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia

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mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds

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one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)

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Akemi

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hedge; risk avoidance

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person of importance; a somebody; absolutely; certainly; to be sure

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state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)

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being good at conversation; conversationalist; good talker

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Hello Work; nickname for the Public Employment Security Office

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have a happy New Year

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resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

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unpaid; overdue

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sense of rhythm; rhythmical sense

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(Japanese) feature phone; traditional Japanese-style cell phone (in contrast to smart phones)

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with a glitter; with a sparkle; brand new; shiny and new

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corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

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problems caused by old people; harm to society by gerontocracy

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the 10 precepts; Ten Commandments; Decalogue; Decalog

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regular customer; valued client

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Tokyo University

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easy; smooth; without a hitch; quick

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Western (film genre)

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copier; copy machine; photocopier

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quitting while one is ahead

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chopsticks

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company name; name of a company

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payday

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individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

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ferocious; fierce; truculent; savage

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my condolences

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last scene (e.g. of a movie); closing scene

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different (from); not the same (as)

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work style; way of working

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chancy trade or business with uncertain profitability; night entertainment business (e.g. hostess bar); nightlife business

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listener's role

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unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to

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handling one's workmen

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smoothly; with a slipping or sliding motion

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to get on; to climb on

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honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest

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branch office

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source of income

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to be worn down; to be reduced

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something unrelated (to what has been discussed thus far)

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bubble; bubble economy

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