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mass-market newspaper; tabloid newspaper

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event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

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to be sacrificed; to fall victim to; to fall prey to

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counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

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crew

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sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time

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explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring

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cause unknown

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number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

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battleship

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anchorage; anchoring; mooring

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harbour

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fifteenth day of the month; fifteen days

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February; second month of the lunar calendar

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bell; bel; B

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newspaper-seller; newsboy; newspaper vendor

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which; what (way)

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colonel; (navy) captain

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service in the first reserve

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person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person

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to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

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level; standard; water level

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worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

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tactician; strategist

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should; must; -able; probably; likely

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steam whistle

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guy

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to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...

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first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag

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belatedly; tardily

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ability; faculty

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technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

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strength; power; proficiency; ability

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industrial production

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second half; latter half

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diastole

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have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than

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not exceeding; and downward; below (e.g. standard); under (e.g. a level); the below-mentioned; the following

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second-rate; inferior

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the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous

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disturbance; riot; mayhem

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Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

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to feel; to sense; to experience

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-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now

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sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible

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dreadful; terrible; horrible; fearsome; formidable; awesome

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imperialism

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major powers of the world; great powers

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dignified appearance; majestic appearance; imposing appearance

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black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

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