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fortune-telling; divination

1

depending on; dependent on

5

triennial

3

10,000; ten thousand

12

ton (now usu. a metric ton, i.e. 1,000kg); tonne

1

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

4

contract; compact; agreement

23

to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly

30

operation (of a machine, factory, fishing boat, etc.); work

1

stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs

1

leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress

1

power plant; power station

1

completion of construction

4

but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding

19

soon; in the near future

3

power; motive power; dynamic force; three-phase electricity

1

insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint

3

to cause; to induce; to bring about a result or state; to produce

5

to be in danger of; to be liable to

3

900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot

1

seventy; 70

13

1,000; one thousand

3

numeral; figure; digit; numeric character

4

rapid (e.g. progress)

3

style; manner; way; after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time)

4

to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer

4

second

13

chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia

25

November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar

21

congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly

124

opening a new hospital, institution, temple, etc.; opening a hospital, institution, temple, etc. (for the day); opening of a Diet session (pre-WWII)

11

twenty-seventh day of the month; twenty-seven days

10

multilayered; doubled

2

sandbank; sandbar

3

riverbank; riverside; market on the riverbank (esp. fish market); place (for activities); venue

5

ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run

8

nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

1

good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable

1

abrupt; sudden; unexpected

22

father

47

news of someone's death; obituary

1

to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

2

in great haste; hurriedly; in a hurry

1

(one's parents') home

3

twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days

9

burial

1

to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry

18

one's age at death

2

fifty; 50

50

one-year-old

3