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minority group (party); minority

2

hair; fur; wool; down; plumage

3

Philippines

1

ballot

1

incubation; hatching

1

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend

5

fertilized egg

1

boiled egg

2

young bird; chick; fledgling; greenhorn; fledgeling; novice

1

entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning

2

rejection

1

majority group (party, faction)

1

sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt

2

insect; bug

3

Kumamoto prefecture (Kyushu)

2

mountainous region

2

Japanese carpenter bee (Xylocopa appendiculata circumvolans); wasp; hornet; yellow jacket

3

standard Japanese name

1

Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet

1

larva; grub; maggot

1

preserved food boiled in soy

1

to pickle thoroughly; to pickle a large amount

3

shōchū; Japanese spirit distilled from sweet potatoes, rice, etc.

1

nourishment

1

able-bodied; robust; sturdy; strong

1

delicacy; dainties

1

convenient; useful; finding useful; coming in handy; (priceless) treasure

3

chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing

1

nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web

2

capture; seizure

4

recreation

2

I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

10

inland districts; inland areas

2

entomophagy; insect eating

1

wartime

1

food shortage

1

nationwide; countrywide; national; throughout the country

3

for use as food; edible

1

beast; brute; animal

4

hunting

7

fishing; fishery

3

safety; security

7

rational; reasonable; logical

4

protein

2

source; origin

1

prediction; estimation

3

food crisis; food-supply crisis

1

saviour; savior; messiah

1

to be disgusted; to be repulsed; to get the creeps

1