severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment
putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank); accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank
provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant
part; part-timer; part-time (work)
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
foolishness; silliness; stupidity; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
international; diplomatic intercourse
den; haunt; hangout; nest; lair
Onigashima; island of ogres (in Japanese folklore)
party ticket (esp. one for a political fundraising party)
to sell well; to sell out; to be worldly and understanding; to be sensible; to be sorted out; to be put in order
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
first come, first served; the early bird catches the worm
new student; freshman; first-year student
veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
to buy (stock, materials, etc.); to purchase; to lay in; to get; to obtain
every month; each month; monthly
extermination; elimination; renouncing worldly desires (in order to concentrate on Buddhist teachings); curing (an illness)
crunch crunch; thud thud; tramp tramp
comfortable (to live in); snug; cozy; cosy
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen); embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization
(at a rate of) once a month; 10 percent monthly interest
income; earnings; revenue; proceeds; takings; receipts
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
mark; sign; to mark; to put a mark on; trademark; paying attention to
tidal hour; right time (to do something); opportunity; chance
shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
supervised; under surveillance
grandfather; male senior-citizen
dead men tell no tales; the dead cannot speak in their own defense
(not) ever; (not) at all; (not) on any account; deepest bottom of the earth
going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo