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one generation (past, present, or future); a lifetime

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final version

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Mcnaught

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Youzan

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empty (e.g. argument); insubstantial; hollow; fruitless

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snot-nosed kid

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if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; (lit.) if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

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Yuka

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Hooch

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streetcar, trolley

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dirt cheap; very cheap

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Kibougaoka

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Keinishi

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fresh (e.g. fish); lively; spirited; animated

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Leonids

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civil liberties

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The Circle of Rainbow Light; Japanese religious group based on the teachings of Aum Shinrikyo

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usher

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dry provisions; dried food; dried goods; groceries

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what the hell are you saying?

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medium volume; medium scale; moderate size; mid-size

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Yuuki

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without a moment's delay; leaving everything else unattended to

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mini patrol car; small police car

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Sayer; Sayour; Sayre; Syer

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Peto

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girl's lacquered wooden geta; wooden footwear; clogs; sabots

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right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

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credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest

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star

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the way of karate; karate

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Perseids

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stoppage time

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ready... (as in "ready, go!")

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Bhaga

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artisan's temperament; character of a complete artisan

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long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle

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light (flavor); lightly-seasoned; thin (porcelain, paper, etc.); thinly made; thin soy sauce; light soy sauce

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singing contest; person proud of their voice

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to return evil for good; to return a favour with spite (favor)

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turning evil into good through proselytization

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breaking down; defeating; abolishing

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of no avail; useless

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eaves; edge of the eaves

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getting back together; being reconciled; returning to normal

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Yūyake Koyake (1919 children's song)

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coffee pot

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radiator

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stop signal; stoplight

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Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head

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