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backdrop

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to extort; to shake down (for money)

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Choutarou

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self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency

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audit; auditing

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full rehearsal; dress rehearsal; run-through

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(arch.) fruit; counter for fruit

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to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset

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salary raise

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bonus; reward; prize

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please (give me); please (do for me)

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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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the internal organs

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to take a veneer off something

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(compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 65); mandatory retirement; reaching retirement age

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all over the island; throughout the island; on the island

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temporary retirement; suspension from office

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working on a day off

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chow; three-in-a-row

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to make trouble; to make waves; to cause discord

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woodcutter; lumberjack; logger

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school district; school area

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to carry through; to achieve; to complete

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pet dog; beloved dog; love of dogs; fondness for dogs

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impossible to do (although wants to)

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pear blossoms

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to happen to ride together; to share a vehicle; to (operate a) carpool

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stage setting; scenery; stagehand; sceneshifter

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Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

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someone who is greatly one's senior; veteran

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request

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upper grades of primary school (sixth, fifth, and sometimes fourth grades)

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stop bullshitting me; you're fucking kidding me; you're full of shit

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practice; training

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bedtime

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to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry

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prosecution; indictment

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well done; good job

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violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)

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Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa); yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); printing block; catalpa bow; catalpa medium

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shape up!; act properly!

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this year; this fiscal year; this school year

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pardon me for leaving (first)

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Ōmi (former province located in present-day Shiga Prefecture)

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prostitution

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clearing one's throat; cough

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schoolgirl; female student

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grandchild

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to sprinkle water on (something); to spray water on; to splash water on; to hinder; to hamper; to stifle

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all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy

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