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disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes

1

order; discipline; regularity; system; method

1

dawn; daybreak

1

to face; to go towards; to head towards

1

above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous

1

to miss (doing); to fail (to do)

1

president (of a society); chairman

3

foundation

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Fukuoka (city, prefecture)

1

past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)

1

traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)

1

Shiba Ryoutarou (1923.8.7-1996.2.12)

1

splendid horse; promoted bishop

1

to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count

1

senior high school; high school

1

leaving school during a term

1

going to the United States

1

automatic translation machine

1

to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily

1

capital; funds; seed money; asset

1

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

1

to be well-known

1

making rapid progress; making great advances; rush; dash; onslaught

1

businessman; industrialist

1

nameless; unnamed; obscure; unknown; causeless; unjustifiable

1

chance meeting

1

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

1

trend; tendency; movement; attitude

1

to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)

1

memory; recollection; remembrance; storage

1

to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)

1

publisher; publishing house; publishing company

3

each; every

1

on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture

1

Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited

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Mikitani Hiroshi (1965.3.11-)

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purchasing plan; acquisition plan

1

change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly

1

though; notwithstanding; although

2

existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have

2

we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)

2

most; extremely

3

growth rate

1

to launch oneself upon; to make one's debut

3

or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...

1

to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose

1

company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.

2

such ... as; or some such

3

system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series

1

to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need

1