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budget travel; penniless travel; travelling on the cheap

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one-hit wonder; flash in the pan; all-or-nothing gambler; one-shot speculator; slugger; home-run batter

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Kouji

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one-way ticket

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to sell out; to sell off

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deluxe suite

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royalty (on book)

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this century

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Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

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nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

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smile

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to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different

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payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment

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high-rise (building); multistory; multistoried; high (altitude); upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)

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establishment (of a business); founding

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once more; again

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Niigata (city, prefecture)

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redevelopment

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to meet; to assemble; to gather; to encounter; to run into

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from here; from this place

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to remain unsold; to be left on the shelf

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new (musical) composition; new piece; new song

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father; dad

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to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do

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popular figure; person in demand; favorite; favourite

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end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle

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narrowness; being cramped; being almost full

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whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary

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green hand; novice

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to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything

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to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion

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mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

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change (for a purchase); toilet splashback

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death; the next world; to pass away; to die

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twilight; sunset; dusk; evening

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effeminate; unmanly; cowardly; sissy

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to be coming; to be popular; to be fashionable; to be angry; to have blown one's lid

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a little; a bit; slightly

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empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

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tidal hour; right time; favourable opportunity (favorable)

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public entertainment; performing arts; accomplishments; attainments

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singer

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all over; all over the place; everywhere

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lower part; foot; lower direction; left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

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throughout Japan

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who?

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loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman

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to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder

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to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply

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this and that; this or that; one thing or another; around; about; round about

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