Vocabulary

amount sold; sales; proceeds; takings; turnover

private (establishment)

(full) name; identity

speaker; lecturer

designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at

combination; union; joining; incorporation; amalgamation; merger

photography (still or motion); photographing; filming; shooting; (video) recording

application; request; petition

coming to Japan; visit to Japan; arrival in Japan

late at night

Shinkansen; bullet train

one's post; place of work; workplace

friction

explanation; commentary; exposition; elucidation

majority

important point; emphasis; stress; importance; priority

volcano

bookshop; bookstore

fixed number (of people); prescribed number (of regular personnel, students, etc.); quota; numerical limit; complement

remodeling; remodelling; reconstruction; conversion; alteration; renovation

assistant professor; associate professor

head (of a line, group, etc.); front; lead; forefront; vanguard

opening of a meeting

commerce; trade; business

eldest daughter; first-born daughter

learned society; scientific society; academy; academic meeting; academic conference

statistics

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)

trading company

drama; theatre; theater; play

zone; area; belt; region

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

friend; acquaintance

prize money; monetary award; reward

joining a company; getting a job with a company; starting work at a company

graduate school

agricultural community; farm village

agricultural chemical; agrochemical; agrichemical

moving; relocation; change of address

counter; window; teller window; ticket window; service counter