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thought; idea; ideology

2

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

1

premature death; untimely death; dying young

1

unsolved; unresolved; unsettled; pending; outstanding

1

to make public; to bring to light

1

(philosophy of) not rocking the boat; (principle of) letting sleeping dogs lie

1

thereafter; after doing that; followed by

1

criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism

1

opportunity; chance; good time (to do); trend; tendency; momentum

1

before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

1

diagram; graph; schema

1

public opinion; popular voice; public sentiment; consensus

3

right in half

1

the instability of a political situation; political instability

1

living in peace; living a quiet life; being content with one's present position; being satisfied with one's lot

1

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

1

easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic

1

to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

1

to say; to be pleased to say

1

townspeople

1

imprudence; indiscretion; thoughtlessness

1

decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing

1

to make a success in life

1

international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan

1

there is no need to ...; it should hardly be necessary to ...

1

real time

1

old-fashioned way of thinking; old-fashioned spirit; old-fashioned

1

sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup

2

stomach cancer

1

hospitalization; hospitalisation

7

surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand

3

doctor; physician

2

half and half; fifty-fifty

2

moving forward (e.g. of a vehicle); onward movement; progress (of work, activities, etc.); advance; progression (of a disease, global warming, etc.); progression (e.g. chord progression)

2

eighty; 80

1

flower bud

1

to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded

1

to keep watching; to continue looking at; to gaze at

1

gun

1

intervening

2

Morioka Station

1

divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off

1

Akita (city, prefecture)

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ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

1

two rows; double file

3

to place in a row; to line up; to range in order; to list one after another (e.g. excuses, reasons, complaints); to rattle off (e.g. lies, compliments); to reel off

1

rage; anger

1

to be ill; to suffer from

1