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Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)

2

Takamatsu (city in Kagawa)

3

liquor store; wine shop; bottle shop; sake dealer; liquor-store owner; brewer

2

apprenticeship

1

Osaka dialect

1

coming out; emerging; being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

1

position; job; employment; opening

1

to roll in; to tumble into; to visit (esp. to stay overnight as an unwanted guest); to fall in one's way; to fall into one's lap

1

to be crushed; to be smashed; to become useless; to cease functioning; to go bankrupt; to go out of business

1

darn it!; darn!; oops!; oh dear!; oh no!

2

moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

1

ramen; Chinese-style noodles

1

That's not true!

1

single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)

1

Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

1

multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill

3

security guard; doorkeeper

2

different school (e.g. of ikebana)

1

often; frequently; now and then; occasionally

2

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

2

association of like-minded people

1

putting in an appearance; visiting; coming to the surface; appearing; showing one's face (in TV, social media, etc.)

1

indicates emotion

5

letter of introduction

1

and; thereupon; because of that

1

president; chairman

1

Japan's best; number one in Japan

1

I assure you it is

1

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

3

great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

1

doctors; teachers

1

Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western

1

to be superior to

1

hey!; hey!

1

cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

1

world fair; international exposition

1

together (of two people); both (of you, them, etc.)

1

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

1

to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to

1

to change one's place of residence; to migrate; to move

3

personality; style; appearance

1

agile; nimble; casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage); carefree; with limited responsibility

2

remote past; far ago; time immemorial

1

like this; in this way; as you see

1

the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)

1

one's wife

1

practice; practising; experience

1

to get heavy; to worsen (of illness); to grow serious

1

young person; inexperienced person; novice

1