銀行家とは、日が照っている時に人に傘を貸し、雨が降り出した途端に返せと言ってくる連中である。の英語

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

during the Edo period in Japan, a merchant who dealt regularly with the Daimyos' city warehouse and who conducted the trading of rice {as well rice tax collection}

The silver was used in minting coins in Japan and was also shipped to Asian countries to support their trade with Western countries.

someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)

I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.

Together with offerings of flowers and food to the family Buddhist alter, decorations such as horses made out of cucumbers or cows made out of eggplants are also placed.

There is a paper plane that can fly to the end of the world, a stuffed monkey that hugs you and a dinosaur that loves to play Frisbee.

The 3 Shokin refers to the three big Shoken Kinyu (securities finance) companies in Japan: Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd., Osaka Securities Financing Co., Ltd. and Chubu Securities Financing Co., Ltd.

When putting out items such as drinks after the meal, we will provide them after we take the table trays and dishes of the finished food.

money or a prize that is given to someone if they give a right answer, exhibit excellent work, or discover something

Article 733 of the Civil Code stipulates the period of prohibition of remarriage by stating that "A woman may not remarry unless six months have passed since the day of dissolution or rescission of her previous marriage."

One of the popular figures in Japanese TV drama is a vice‐shogun in the Edo period who travels around the country incognito rewarding the good and punishing the evil.

We live in a machine age; motorcars, TV sets, clothes, and books, to name but a few [to mention only a few], are all machine‐made products.

Perspiration cools the body by means of the phenomenon referred to as ‘the heat of evaporation.' As perspiration evaporates, it removes heat from the body.

a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

You forget your station

You should know your place.

Great minds think alike.

People [Those] who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Typical examples are rice terraces called senmaida and a traditional fishing method by ama, or women divers.

today [this day] week

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.

Blue-collar work is a type of work that is done in the field, and is mainly manufacturing, sales, transportation and communication, maintenance, the service industry, etc.

during the Edo period in Japan, a shop whose business was the buying and selling of rice

the liberal arts

a graduate school

on bad [equal, good, speaking, visiting] terms (with…)

A sender writes the name of the recipient on the forehead of a sugar skull and gives it to the person as a present.

A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient, as the name suggests, is for delivering a bag of printed matter.