system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
regular employee; permanent employee; full-time employee
university graduate; having graduated from university
academic background; academic credentials; academic record
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
destruction; collapse; crumbling
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
a head (e.g. taller or shorter); noticeable difference (in competitors' results)
iron plate; steel plane; sure thing; certain winner
alumnus (alumnae); graduate; former member of an organization; former inhabitant (country, region, etc.)
season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring); first ten days of the fourth lunar month
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
management; administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)
three-digit number; hundreds column
as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect
impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned
punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop
Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later
without an occupation; unemployed; jobless
crisis awareness; sense of impending crisis
to complete decisively; to do to completion
to follow someone's last wishes; to fulfil a dying wish
to eke out a living; to get a bare livelihood; to live from hand to mouth
real estate tax; fixed assets tax; property tax; rates
to sell off; to sell completely
the same generation; coeval
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry
tax counsellor; tax counselor; licensed tax accountant
touring (by car, bike, etc.)
to face on; to look out on to
on the same occasion; at the same time; coincidentally; along with; partly (to do, for)