jpdb beta

to have an interest (in)

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profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

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one country; whole country; hotheaded; stubborn

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sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning

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advantage; benefit; profit; interest

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Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)

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to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end

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huge mound; heap; pile

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Meiji Restoration (1868)

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Satchō Alliance; 1866 alliance between the feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū

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enmity; antagonism; hostility

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to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject

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common front; united front

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establishment; settlement

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Britain-America

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difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy

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implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization

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morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)

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to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

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original text

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longed-for; anxiously awaited

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Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

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Sasebo

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dancing; dance

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crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

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pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.

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Kasumigaseki; district of Tokyo where most of Japan's government ministry offices are located; government ministries (of Japan); Japanese government bureaucracy

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Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

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valid; effective; yuko (judo)

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to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)

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unexpected meeting; coincidence

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rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

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business; affairs; duties; work; procedure; task

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to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)

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to drag around; to pull about; to lead around (by the nose)

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holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)

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just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

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to return; to come back

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confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

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to one's heart's content; to one's complete satisfaction; as much as one likes; heartily; thoroughly; without restraint

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to get on; to climb on

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no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it

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ass; arse; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole

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stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce

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speed; velocity; pace; velocity

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depth charge

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probe

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later on; subsequently; by and by; after a while

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wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

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to have fortune come your way; to become lucky

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