series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
corporate body; corporation; (legal) person; (juridical) person
finance business; moneylending business
capital; funds; seed money; asset
expensive money; dear money; high interest
to lend; to loan; to let out on hire
post-war recovery; post-war reconstruction
regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to
standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together; flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)
legislation; development of laws
suspicious-looking; fishy
religious organization; religious organisation
profit-making corporation
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
welfare; well-being; social welfare; social security; social service
public-service corporation; charitable corporation; juridical (legal) person working for the public good
Kagoshima (city, prefecture)
southern country; southern provinces; southern lands
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
heavenly god; heavenly gods; spirit of Sugawara no Michizane; Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit); pit of a dried plum; dried plum; tenjin hairstyle
(main building of a) Shinto shrine
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
various countries; various regions; various provinces
correction; revision; amendment
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words
to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart
repetition; repeat; reiteration; repeatedly
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)
perspiration given off during sleep; sweating while sleeping; night sweats