inexperienced person; young person; novice; greenhorn
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because
to improve one's skill (esp. at calligraphy or drinking larger amounts of alcohol)
neighbour to the right (person, building, etc.)
Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
confirmation of someone's safety; ascertainment of someone's safety
empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; (lit.) eyes of a dead fish
industrial physician; occupational health physician
discretionary work (labour, labor)
overtime (work); work done outside normal working hours
arrangement; pact; agreement
advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation
sending documents to a prosecutor; filing charges
punishment; penalty; penal regulations; penal code
penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
every time; whenever; as; whether; in (either case)
badness; evilness; bad; evil
labor management; labour management
unskilled labor; simple labor; menial job
to give thought to; to bear in mind; to keep in mind
indicate reason; infers some protest
keypunch operator; keypuncher
text entry; character entry
necessity (or lack thereof)
postwar period; period after Second World War
someone engaged in a certain pursuit; practitioner; worker; employee
service industry; service sector
professional job; profession
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth