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duck meat stew (dish from Ishikawa prefecture)

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flop (e.g. movie); total failure; box office bomb

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Ryuuji

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dusk; twilight

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salted salmon; fish wrapped in (bamboo) leaves

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getting rich quick; making a killing; making a fortune at a single stroke

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drama serial

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Ruriko

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end of next month

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the next meeting

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hotel expenses; expenses incurred during a stay

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revenge

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attendance or absence

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common orient clam (Meretrix lusoria)

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to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt

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new graduate; recent graduate

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temporary retirement; suspension from office

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long-term stay

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interruption; interference; butting in

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rebroadcasting; rerun

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Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)

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producer; director

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master; masterhand; maestro

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young lady (in ref. to a maid, etc.)

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trend of the times; way things are going

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collective responsibility; joint liability

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young bird; chick; fledgling; greenhorn; fledgeling; novice

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most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece

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scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer

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to grumble about something (trivial)

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(find) common (meeting) ground

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bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk

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quay; wharf; jetty; wall-like shoreline; cliff wall

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Thursday

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Sea of Japan

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and; thereupon; because of that

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integrity; consistency; conformity; compliance

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to knead again; to rework; to revise; to polish

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hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden

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to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

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Kanazawa (city in Ishikawa)

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to remain unsold; to be left on the shelf

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unpredictability; element of surprise

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Miyazaki (city, prefecture)

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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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to tell a lie; to fib

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vulgar; lowbrow; coarse

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ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

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saying all one has to say (usu. negative, e.g. complaints, insults, etc.)

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necessity; inevitability

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