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Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression)

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agricultural produce

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price; value; cost

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depreciation; decline; fall; slump

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exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

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to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master

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farmer; farming family; farmhouse

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daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

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selling oneself (into bondage) (esp. for prostitutes)

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tenant farming

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dispute; quarrel; strike

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to follow in succession; to happen one after another

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Akita (city, prefecture)

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to play a central role; to take a leading part

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similarly; same (idea); same (name)

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the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district

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literary

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sense of beauty; aesthetic sense

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ruler; measure

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dialect; provincialism

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minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)

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component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)

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to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake

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skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

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standard language (used in government, education, etc.); standard Japanese

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tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well

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to open one's eyes wide

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looking someone in the eyes; taking a straight look at something

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preference; priority; precedence

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practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis (philosophy)

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north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

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meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast

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low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)

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Manchurian Incident (1931); Mukden Incident

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to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)

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puppet government; puppet regime

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to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make

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Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)

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founding of a nation

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declaration; proclamation; announcement

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China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

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government; administration

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the various countries of Europe and America; the West

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League of Nations

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withdrawal (e.g. from an organization); secession; leaving; pulling out

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Manchuria

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hegemony

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to establish; to formulate

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plan; project; attempt; plot; scheme; undertaking

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Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

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