“third-category beer”, a beer-like alcoholic beverage that is not classified as either beer or happōshu in the Japanese tax code

synonym of 第三のビール (“third-category beer”)

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

one part

parting, parting ways

the first in grade or rank

one case, one matter