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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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pole vault

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Brundage

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annexation of Korea (by Japan; 1910-1945)

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white supremacy; white supremacism

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Goebbels

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Diem

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to attempt; to test; to try out

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lantern procession

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Nazism; national socialism

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sprinting; running as fast as one can

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to install a telephone

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Aryan

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Riefenstahl

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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

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Brandenburg

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terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering

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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

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timeless masterpiece; immortal work

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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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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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swimming

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our country Japan

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bath heater

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running alongside; pacesetting; accompanying

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fieldstone

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bronze medal

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Manchurian Incident (1931); Mukden Incident

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to be charmed by

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Bismarck; Otto; Eduard; Leopold; von

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Adrian; Adrien; Adrienne

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to cap off; to culminate

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friends

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adios; goodbye

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the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town

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Adolphe; Adorf

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buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase

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general manager; general superintendent; general director (of a film, etc.)

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whole house; whole audience

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Jesse; Jessie

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