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not necessarily so; is not always true

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to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

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tsk; tut; shoot; chirp

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eleventh month of the lunar calendar

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concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

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betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

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reason; pretext; motive

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release; liberation; acquittal

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to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for

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notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)

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Ministry of Health and Welfare (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)

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to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

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pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting

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surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it

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Japan

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society; public; community; social studies

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to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

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in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever

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people (of a country); nation; citizen; national

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vitality; energy; dynamism

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to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse

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cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

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and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing

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such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o

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this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

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to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

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one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month

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second day of the month; two days

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originally; by nature; from the start

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trade port

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tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)

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since; henceforth

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unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help

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storehouse; warehouse; godown

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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...

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to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend

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to have an eye on; to zero in on

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Department of Defense (USA); the Pentagon; Ministry of Defence (UK, etc.)

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research and development; R&D

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division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category

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from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course

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fixtures; furnishings; equipment

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charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

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to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

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because; as; since

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accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons

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to occur; to happen

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

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startup; booting up; activation; starting (e.g. engine, computer); launch

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