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Tajima Naoto (1912.8.3-1990.12.4)

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Ooe Sueo (1914.8.2-1941.12.24)

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triple jump; hop, step and jump

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Nishida Shuuhei (1910.3.21-1997.4.13)

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Gijon

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running long jump

2

Jakob

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pole vault

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Brundage

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annexation of Korea (by Japan; 1910-1945)

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Olympic Games; Olympics

2

Summer Olympics

4

white supremacy; white supremacism

1

Goebbels

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Owens

2

Diem

1

to attempt; to test; to try out

1

lantern procession

1

thanks; thank you

4

field cap (used by Japanese troops in WWII)

2

Canot

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Nazism; national socialism

1

counter for wheels and flowers

6

Shinshou

2

sprinting; running as fast as one can

1

grandchild

3

to install a telephone

1

Aryan

1

Riefenstahl

1

torchbearer (esp. Olympic); flame-bearer

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on-stage performance by musicians in a kabuki play; shamisen accompaniment when a performer (esp. a rakugo story teller) appears on stage

1

documentary film

2

Brandenburg

1

to break the tape (at the finishing line); to breast the tape

3

terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering

1

La Tour; Latour

4

testing stage; test step

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fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

1

timeless masterpiece; immortal work

1

Imperial reign; Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)

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Reni; Leni

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did not finish (sporting term); DNF

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Olympic village; athlete's village

2

the Japanese (rising sun) flag

4

man proposes, God disposes; (lit.) man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate)

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Harper (Liberia)

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manager; director; superintendent; overseer

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Trans-Siberian Railway

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Olympic torch relay

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Helsinki (Finland)

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