to do wholeheartedly; to put one's heart into something
time around sunset; early evening
thereupon; shortly thereafter
cast (play, film, etc.); cast (e.g. type conversion)
successor; replacement; second wife
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
high-spec; highly competitive (on the dating scene, e.g. by having a high income, being good-looking); ticking all the boxes
great vigor; tremendous energy; (lit.) forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
dwindling; declining; diminishing; tapering (to a point)
expectation; assume will happen; forecast
entering (the marketplace); introducing (something) to the market; access; visiting a high-class or noble individual
steady; sound; solid; reliable; trustworthy
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
notable; important; chief; valuable; conspicuous; outstanding
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
business region; marketing area; commercial sphere; trading area; region in which a business operates
promptly; quickly; without delay; before others; first
to make contact (with); to get in touch; to enter into relations; to come to an understanding
traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)
to satisfy the requirements
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)
not entirely wrong but not entirely right; so-so; average
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
it's precisely for that reason that ...; which is precisely why ...
established (existing) policy (procedure(s))
unspecified large number (of people)
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; word that has become passé
electrophone; electronic musical instrument