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undergraduate

2

public relations department (section, office)

1

public relations officer

6

press club; correspondents' club

6

hardness; firmness

1

with meals

1

juvenile division (police); juvenile section

2

juvenile crime; juvenile delinquency

2

cocoa powder

1

file cabinet; filing cabinet; shelf of documents

1

Kenji

7

co-op; (consumers') cooperative

2

remarkable ability; mastery; brilliant technique; go-getter; resourceful person; wizard

1

sorry to bother you, but ...

1

to burst open; to open suddenly (of a door); to change completely; to do a 180

1

tea bag

1

cutting in line; queue jumping

1

graduate student; insei; apprentice go professional

1

to happen to pass by

1

pommel horse; side horse; saddled horse

3

previous year (fiscal, academic, etc.)

2

roasted green tea

2

folklore studies; folkloristics

2

enka; traditional-style Japanese popular ballad

2

to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise

1

dog; doggy; bow-wow

3

Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

4

to age; to grow old

1

large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)

1

predecessor

8

to graduate from a university

1

hurt; injured

4

to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)

1

one month

2

being upright and cleanhanded

1

distant mountain

29

to show

1

homemade

1

televising; broadcasting; airing

1

newspaper story (article, account)

1

Akira

1

performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

1

alma mater

1

protocol; written evidence; record (investigation, interrogation, etc.); preliminary memo; charge sheet

5

whiteboard

1

taking up a new post

1

study of foreign languages; linguistics

2

marshmallow

1

Chiba prefecture (Kanto area)

4

vocation; lifework; sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation); prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

1