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company president; manager; director

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work; job; labor; work

2

while; during; while; although; all; both

1

marriage partner; spouse; wife-to-be; husband-to-be; future spouse

1

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

1

-years-old

1

poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want

2

home; family; household

2

to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)

2

last week; the week before

1

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

1

to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy

1

consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude

1

wonderful; splendid; magnificent

1

to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

1

thank you

2

ha ha ha (laughter)

1

mother

2

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

1

to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

2

snack; light meal; snack bar (usu. an establishment that serves alcohol); snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie

1

to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)

3

rich person

2

to escape; to run away

2

father

2

to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture

1

low salary

1

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

2

to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

1

money

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

1

school

1

stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled

1

to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of

1

gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn

1

to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

1

right; correct; proper; righteous; just

1

as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction

1

scholarship; stipend; bursary; student loan

1

to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire

1

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint

1

club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse

1

there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you

4

when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days

1

only; nothing but

1

to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into

1

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

2

shabby; seedy

1

was; were

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