to travel all over; to be active in places widely apart
senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion
(arch.) court lady with her own private chamber or office; low-class prostitute (Edo period)
complication; intricacy; involution; to become complicated; to get entangled
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a stickler for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules
school for training bachelor girls in homemaking arts; (a type of) finishing school
Gender Equality In Employment Act
artwork; block copy; paste-up
pseudonym of a haiku poet
geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl; dressed-up beautiful woman
something easy to do; cinch
head of personnel department
popular (with); in favour (with); well received
association; club; fan club; supporter's association
going bye-byes; going beddy-byes; baby; childish person (esp. a young woman)
head over heels; headlong; head first
customer; client; client company; business connection; trade partner
good piece of work; honourable mention (honorable)
ballot paper; voting paper
cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation
resigning from a company on marriage (of a woman)
women's group; women's association
killing two birds with one stone; serving two ends
festive mood; holiday mood; festive atmosphere
to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice
senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem