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Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (US); FBI

1

to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out

2

National Police Agency

1

agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)

3

months (period of)

5

east coast

1

every place; various places

1

appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom

1

art gallery; art museum

2

art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery

1

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

1

painting; picture

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carving; engraving; sculpture

1

newspaper company

2

television station

1

letter; missive; note; mail

5

Far East

1

island country

1

phantom

3

ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

10

to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

3

completely black; black from top to bottom; black from head to toe

1

costume; dress; attire; (arch.) interior decoration; (arch.) landscaping; (arch.) furnishing

1

carriage; poise; bearing; demeanor; movement (of the body)

1

average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to

2

being put to shame; being outshone; being eclipsed; feeling embarrassed

1

acrobat; acrobatics

1

to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete

4

police officer; policeman; policewoman

5

smokescreen

2

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

2

edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

1

iron man; strong man

4

space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being

4

robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead

1

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

4

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

2

Aketi

1

next day; following day

3

Japan's best; number one in Japan

1

smiling; beaming; radiant; bright; cheerful

1

as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly

1

black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

1

hood; kerchief

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

2

gender; distinction of sex; sex

4

nationality; citizenship; nationality (ship, airplane, etc.); registration; flag

1

Japanese person; Japanese people

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to chastise; to punish; to discipline

2