excessive lending; excessive loan; over-financing
tender offer; take-over bid; TOB
financial assistance; financial support
unprofitable department; loss-making division; loss-making segment
phone conference; conference call
electrician; electrical engineering; electric works (following company name)
New Year's period (January 1 to 3)
food made from flour (esp. dishes like okonomiyaki and takoyaki)
corporate acquisition (buyout)
business magazine; financial magazine; economic magazine
white knight; knight in shining armor
too good (for a child, to be true, etc.); overproduction (e.g. of crops); making too much
competing companies; rival companies
former president of a company
bad character; bad person; villain; baddie
workforce reduction; personnel cut
operating officer; company executive
to be in sight (e.g. a resolution); to have a clear idea; to have bright prospects
cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible
fragile item; broken article
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
feeling of fullness; ability of a food to fill you up
social gathering; informal get-together; colloquium; panel discussion
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
spinning (textiles); spun yarn
consumer electronics; home appliances
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
career track; promotional track; fast track; upward mobility
Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce
Japanese company (business, firm)
board or officer's meeting
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
division (of company); operations department
semiconductor; solid-state