for your reference; FYR; for your information; FYI
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
wages; pay; rental payment
university graduate; having graduated from university
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
exceedingly; extremely; very many; indeed
junior high school graduate; middle school graduate
change of occupation; career change
minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone
(someone else's) child; child; kid
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
major premise (in a syllogism); important condition; basic premise; something that should be obvious to all; something that should not have to be argued
of course; certainly; naturally
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
assuming that ...; supposing that ...
calculator (electronic); pocket calculator
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see...
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
to jump up; to spring up; to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to act rashly; to jump the gun
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
smoothly; easily; readily
on the occasion of; at the time of
to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on
twice; again; second time
asking; enquiring; searching; looking for
clear; clearing (a bar, hurdle, etc.); overcoming; getting through; clearing (the ball); clearing (e.g. a checked box)
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
clearly; plainly; distinctly; decisively; flatly; definitely