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legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel; Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys); Japanese dish prepared with cooked fish and chicken

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identity number; national identification number; national identity number; personal identity number

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Genkurouyoshitsune

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type of popular literature from the late Edo period

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pale; pallid; wan; pasty

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Momotarou (legendary Japanese folk-tale hero)

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crank call; prank call; nuisance call

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to open (up) a Pandora's box

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written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft

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ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life)

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Bakin

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personnel section

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handbook; manual; guide; primer

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obstruction of business; interference with business; interference with somebody's duties

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completely using up ...; running out of ...; exhausting ...

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public expense; public funds; public money; public expenditure

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small, crow-billed tengu

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to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of

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silent phone call (form of harassment)

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great nuisance; extremely annoying; quite embarrassing

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Yama; judge of the afterlife

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trouble with women

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Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

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ground cherry (Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii); husk tomato; Chinese lantern plant; children's noisemaking toy

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wind and rain; rainstorm

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low-ranking prison guard; hell's tormenting devils

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Heike family; Taira family

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reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)

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mythical two-tailed monster cat

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imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

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Moussa

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employee welfare; employee benefits; fringe benefits

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longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)

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extremely; exceptionally; extraordinarily; terribly; super

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being attracted by physical looks only; person who puts much store by good looks

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phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call

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to drag along; to take (a suspect to the police); to drag (someone) away

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Romeo and Juliet

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reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence

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the Ox (second sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Ox (around 2am, 1-3am, or 2-4am); north-northeast; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

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place of execution

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Yoshitsune

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to kindle; to build a fire; to instigate; to stir up; to incite

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I, as a mere priest; this humble servant of Buddha

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high Buddhist priest

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Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna

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to exclude; to leave out (of conversations, etc.); to freeze out; to send to Coventry

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prison term

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spirit (e.g. human spirit); soul; spirit; ghost; ethereal being

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