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Yasutaka

1

Givet

1

Noriko

2

Yoshichika

1

The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; JCCI

7

bus route; bus line

2

Tessie

1

restlessly; restively; agitated; fidgety

1

associate editor; deputy editor

1

haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing

1

to set up a company

1

river fishing

1

victim of crime

1

influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well

1

butter roll

1

support group

1

Boso Peninsula

1

pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out; forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators); overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead

1

to steeped in vice

1

good at storytelling; good at telling (funny) stories; having the gift of gab

1

secretarial office

1

memoirs; reminiscences

3

bus hijacking

11

selection (esp. from many people for an important job position); exceptional promotion

1

near-death experience

2

be inextricably involved; be in a sticky situation

1

group of companies; combine

1

overseas assignment; overseas posting

1

raisin; raisins

1

fire alarm; fire bell

1

married man

1

Judas

1

fire department (in Japan, composed of on call civilian firefighters)

1

water lily (any plant of genus Nymphaea); pygmy waterlily (Nymphaea tetragona)

1

orphanage; children's home; foster home

1

funeral procession

1

area of holiday homes; area of villas

1

Mukoujima

1

granduncle

4

household; home; family; housekeeping

1

frontier (esp. the American frontier); frontier (of a field); forefront (of science, technology)

4

nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7)

1

person who has committed suicide

1

press; print shop; printing office

1

returning home directly

2

beauty parlor

1

Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)

1

to throw down

1

Yamanashi (city, prefecture); wild nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia var. pyrifolia); wild Japanese pear

1

outbreak of fire

1