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five-ring Olympic emblem

1

long, straight, wide-open highway

1

Kayou

1

Caslavska

4

Shinchou

1

creating a new village or town; opening a village (e.g. for Olympic athletes)

1

Olympic year

1

Fukiura

1

Washington Heights

1

Republic of the Congo

1

Heiwakinen Park

1

Masae

1

lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

1

Yasumoto

2

Hiroshima Peace Memorial; A-Bomb Dome; Genbaku Dome

1

Blue Impulse (JASDF aerobatic team)

2

clear autumn day; clear fall day

1

Atsuko

1

Kyojou

1

counter for wheels and flowers

8

Shinshou

2

story about human nature or emotions (esp. rakugo); emotional rakugo story lacking a punch line

1

to hold something reverently with both hands

1

Olympic cauldron; Olympic flame platform

1

political tone; political flavour (flavor)

1

ladykiller who seduces married women; handsome young man who is popular among married women

1

saving water; water conservation; economizing on water

1

entering a village; moving to a village

1

torchbearer (esp. Olympic); flame-bearer

3

Color television

1

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

1

Yoshinori

5

documentary film

2

professional jester; professional entertainer; comedian; flatterer; sycophant; brown-noser

1

extremely large-scale (literary) work; monster work; long film; epic

1

guardian deity of seafaring; Kumbhira

1

drum and fife band

1

entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall; vaudeville theater manager; music hall proprietor

2

to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)

2

to call for somebody's participation

1

Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway; Shuto Expressway

1

to purchase

1

Czechoslovakia

1

Olympic village; athlete's village

5

the Japanese (rising sun) flag

2

fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault

1

running swiftly; running at full speed

1

Congo

4

Olympic torch relay

10

hoisting (e.g. a flag); raising; flying; putting up

3