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Akie

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limited-express ticket (usu. needed in addition to a basic fare ticket); special-express ticket

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cable; rope

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to be scattered around; to be all over the place

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Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

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Mariko; Malko

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to take advantage of (someone's) weakness

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sleazebag; asshole; shithead; lowlife

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betting ticket; betting slip

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shabby; mean; sorry; dingy

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old river

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to make oneself available (free)

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fund-raising; collection of funds

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nothing to sneeze at; pretty impressive

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one jump; one flight; (at) once; (in) one stroke

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huff; heave-ho

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treat; banquet; feast; thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal

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karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines

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in contrast to ...; unlike ...; while ...; whereas ...

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cheap; economical

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trouble; problem; mess; difficulty; nuisance

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white lily

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housewife

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common cattail (Typha latifolia); common bulrush; common reedmace

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common gull (Larus canus); mew gull; gull (Laridae spp.); seagull

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living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

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to serve God

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bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

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lama

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marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens); Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

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to show mercy; to show sympathy; to have compassion; to be kind

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upright; fair; honest

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special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu

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value; worth; virtue; blessing

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to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp

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forward; officious; impertinent; intrusive

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sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

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jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point

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to cause casualties; to result in deaths

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to sell over to

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lottery; lottery ticket

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scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace; mark (e.g. skid marks)

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suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

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windmill; wind turbine; pinwheel (toy); windmill (toy); Clematis patens (species of climbing plant)

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indirection; indirectness

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first kiss

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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

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to have the privilege of doing

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brocade; fine dress; fine clothes

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some; any; please; anyway; anyhow

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