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to divulge one's true feelings; to open one's heart

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refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed

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exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC

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contact; connectedness; rapport; mutual touching

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the fifth

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entry to school or university; matriculation; enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)

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Minatoshi

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Tokyo Olympics

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to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

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preparatory school (for entrance examinations); cram school; cramming school

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disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant

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border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region

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studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)

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lesson; class work; teaching; instruction

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to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out

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to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group); to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)

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mahjong parlour; mahjong parlor

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to stay long; to hang around; to hang out; to be immersed (in water) for a long time; to soak

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not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady

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report card; result sheet

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absence; non-attendance

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a number of days

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principal's office

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just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

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unable to resist; unable to suppress

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another school; other schools

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fist fight

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dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course

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company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)

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spirit; drive; vigour; ambition; aspiration

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lazy; idle; indolent; slothful

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before one's eyes

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to take a class

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Ōtsuka Station

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half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%

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to go past; to pass; to pass by

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duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck

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tweezers; forceps

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Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō

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city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis

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low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

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business district; shopping district; bustling street; shopping centre; shopping center; downtown

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to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir

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violent shock; agitation; turbulence; turmoil; upheaval; excitement

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in front of a station

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Sahara

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second floor; upstairs

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three times

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class reunion

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to work hard; to work diligently

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