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Okui

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contemporary history

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roundabout road; curving road

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current; hip; trendy; fashionable; stylish

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small bear; bear cub

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international politics; world politics

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biggest shareholder; largest stockholder

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absolute beginner; complete amateur

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physical culture; bodybuilding (body development, not necessarily weightlifting)

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production cost

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voting right

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unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty

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deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard

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general meeting of stockholders

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resolution; decision; vote

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representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

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being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless

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accounting department

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if I'm forced to say something; if anything; if I must say; if I must choose

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beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

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rejection; negation; voting down

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Bata

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Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides); melody; section of a pop song

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state of progress

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other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

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this place; where one comes from; here

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falling (down); tumbling (down); failure; failing; renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy

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easy; smooth; without a hitch; quick

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to achieve; to win; to gain; to attain

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place of employment

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starting up (e.g. business, computer)

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going up and down; ascent and descent; climb and descent

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Sakuma

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recovery; restoration

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scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer

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shareholder; stockholder

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recommendation (of a person for a position); nomination

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what's the matter?

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irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)

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losing initiative; being forestalled; second move (in go or shogi); moving second; rear guard

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three-legged race; cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies); operating in tandem

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to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it

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appearing together; co-acting; co-starring

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company director; board member

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capture; takeover; hijack; skyjacking

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large-scale work; voluminous work; monumental work; great work; masterpiece

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approval; adoption (of a motion, bill, etc.); passage

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comeback; recovery; restoration; rally; reflexive (in grammar)

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sharing one's lot with another; being in the same boat

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dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

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