Vocabulary

four-wheel drive; 4WD

certificate

head of personnel department

man proposes, God disposes; do your best and leave the rest to providence; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate)

life; living

personnel record

high street; town centre (center)

three cheers

to fight with each other; to fight amongst yourselves

stationed in France; resident in France (of ambassadors, etc.)

money lending business

(the) insurance business

the works (of the gods)

living space

thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

boned white fish boiled in salted water

to be full

less than; fraction of; below

totally uninteresting

top part of the head that is shaved from the forehead to the crown (on chonmage hair styling)

Edo-period inspection of rice plants

inspection; audit

pentatonic scale

metanephros; third stage of kidney development

seemingly good; (of) good appearance; looking good

saber-toothed tiger (sabre)

gladiator

second class carriage

photographic image; photograph of a painting or resembling a painting

next summer

prairie dog (Cynomys sp.)

capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris); greater capybara

old dog

mutually contradictory

safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent

emergency and critical care centre (center)

corotron (electrostatic charging device using a corona discharge)

shaku; flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb

post-mortem certificate

childcare leave (taken after the compulsory childcare leave); maternity leave; paternity leave