contract; compact; agreement
international; diplomatic intercourse
bank; banking institution
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
property; fortune; means; assets
international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
economy; economics; finance; (one's) finances; being economical; economy
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
financial products; financial instruments
to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
traditional; conventional
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
arriving at the present; present-day; to arrive at the present day
to be intimate with; to befriend
previous year (fiscal, academic, etc.)
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
events of the day; current affairs
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
at that time; in those days
doubt; skepticism; scepticism; disbelief
to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
miniaturization; miniaturisation; downsizing