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unofficial offer (esp. job offer); tentative decision

3

private; exclusive; secret

1

keeping a secret; secrecy; confidentiality

3

tieless; not wearing a tie; open-necked

2

past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40

1

chief of the general affairs department (bureau); chief of the executive section

3

newly appointed; inaugural

2

rough plan; draft

4

shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

1

next (fiscal) year

1

compound sentence; sentenced formed of two independent clauses; important cultural property; important cultural asset

9

important cultural property; important cultural asset

1

administration costs; administrative expenses; management costs

1

trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation

1

some; (a) little; somewhat; to some extent; in part

1

being extremely fond of; having a weakness for; having no eye for; being a poor judge of; having no chance (of succeeding)

1

ownership; dominion; ownership rights; proprietorship; property rights

2

mining rights

1

fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year; academic year; school year; product year

3

next year; next fiscal year

1

environmental measure

1

power; authority; jurisdiction

2

deciding or acting on one's own

1

democracy

2

complete cure; radical cure; complete recovery

2

comment

2

to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair

1

brush up (i.e. fine tune, polish up, revise)

3

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

1

paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of

2

thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate

2

stigma; dishonour; dishonor; infamy

2

give up; relinquish; serve up; let loose

1

frog; kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)

1

poker face

1

to let something (or somebody) go past; to do too much

2

almost everyone

1

dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview

2

prevailing view; common opinion; general consideration

2

cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot

2

to put someone to work; to make someone work

1

one yen; throughout (an area); whole district

7

pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)

3

boat ticket; passage ticket

2

the whole city; all the cities; every city

2

180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters; 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters; one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top)

1

local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

1

barely; scraping by

2

special sale

1

tourism association; tourist association; tourism bureau

5