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ace (playing card); ace (of a team); leading player; ace; hotshot; ace (serve)

3

and; as well as

1

river; stream; River; the ... river

1

number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout

2

at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

32

three; 3

1

island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf

2

all; completely; totally; entirely; thoroughly

4

familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by

1

to become; to amount to

2

Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan

5

continuation; succession; series

1

season (in nature, sports, etc.); seasonal word or phrase (in haiku); year

1

(stage) appearance; performance; participation (e.g. in a tournament)

1

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

43

Tokyo

1

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

85

dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook

6

institute; academy

4

pitching and batting

1

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

1

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

31

three years

2

life; living; I; me; student

2

this year

2

strongest ever; most powerful in history

1

team

3

if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question

14

Terada

1

supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor

2

to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence

1

of course; certainly; naturally

1

to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

1

bluish purple

1

championship pennant

1

be; is

14

thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow

2

one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good; lacking

1

opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat

1

as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...

1

to hate; to detest

2

isn't that right?

5

this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

8

that; those; the

8

large front gate

2

like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to

1

villainous face

1

wig; hairpiece

1

direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)

3

fighting spirit; (will to) fight

1