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devoted husband

1

fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk

3

cabinet minister

1

answers in the Diet

1

cautious; careful; shrewd; tactful; prudent; faultless

1

and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

2

to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out

1

yesterday

11

few days

1

next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (last month, etc.); for (20 years, etc.)

1

announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known

1

to rack one's brains

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to say; to tell; to state; to do

15

unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected

5

going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work

7

executive meeting; meeting of the board of directors

6

meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention

2

heated argument; heated discussion; heated debate

2

who

8

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this

1

lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up

1

lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

1

Tsuneji

3

bridge loan; relief or emergency loan

2

(acting as an) intermediate; mediation; employment office (Edo period)

1

promissory note

1

arrangement; preparations; search (by police)

3

to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on

2

alcohol; sake

2

to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

3

heavy drinker

1

formal

2

to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)

1

to make contact

1

arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant

1

tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet

1

shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

2

dinner; evening meal

1

halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

1

pachinko; mechanical gambling game superficially resembling pinball; slingshot; catapult; pistol

1

liberal arts college; teachers' college

1

eleven o'clock

3

to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive

1

life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened

1

big problem

1

to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

1

finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit

1

financial difficulty; distress

1

financing; loan

2

in proportion to; according to; depending on

1