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Minister of Home Affairs

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Kevin Costner

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Disaster Preparedness Day (September 1)

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Shunsaku

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lunch money

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Mexican

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Kensaku

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commercial company

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deputy general manager; deputy director-general; assistant commissioner

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Aquarius (constellation); the Water Carrier; the Water Bearer

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disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency); headquarters for disaster control; disaster response headquarters

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job (responsibility) of a section

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disaster prevention practice

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gate of a (Shinto) shrine

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I'm sorry to have kept you waiting

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chink in the armor (armour)

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secretarial section

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public management

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magnanimity; tolerance; large eyes

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threatening letter; intimidating letter

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assistant official

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(arch.) to sink; (arch.) to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish

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kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove

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taco

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goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit

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to arrive

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friend (esp. male)

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hook; hook bracket (Japanese quotation mark)

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(gymnastics) pulling oneself upward with a forward, circling movement; back hip circle

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to hear a rumor; to get wind of

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pond skater (any insect of family Gerridae); water strider

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violently disagreeing; strongly opposing; setting one's heart against

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municipal government

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still; as yet; as it has been

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marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green algae; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

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disaster drill

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to fall down; to drop

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complete ruin; collapse; losing (something) completely (e.g. face)

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focus; forecast

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bow (weapon)

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engineering firm; contractor

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public works; public-works projects; public utilities

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acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

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appointment

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television camera

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shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.); barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

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zoom

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going together

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the latest information

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solder; pewter

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