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local procurement; local content; sourcing locally

1

nothing new; same as always; an old story; nothing new about it; not the first time it has happened

1

secret; private matter; confidential matter

1

guidance; showing the way; guide; guidepost; signpost; waymark

4

to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained

1

another prefecture; other prefectures

1

lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child

1

not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke

1

to get lost; to become lost; to go astray

3

unable to resist; unable to suppress

1

whether or not

1

not exceeding ...; not more than ...; below (a standard, level, etc.); under; the following; the below-mentioned

1

(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

1

implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment

2

standard; criterion; norm; benchmark; measure; gauge

1

if I had to say; if pressed (to answer); if I must choose; if I had to choose

2

price; cost; value; worth; value

1

battle

1

to unfold; to unroll; to open

1

sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic

2

exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste

1

transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover

2

izakaya; tavern, bar, etc. that also serves various dishes and snacks

1

convenience store

1

wave; billow; ups and downs; (something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; tendency

2

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

1

to cool; to chill; to calm down; to cool off; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)

2

confections; sweets; candy; cake

2

light meal; snack; refreshments

1

basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

3

article; item; thing; goods; wares

3

food; food products; foodstuffs

1

excess; surplus; superabundance

1

active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try

1

great difference; major mistake

2

miscellaneous goods; general goods; sundries

1

swim trunks

1

necessary expenses; due charges; tax deductible expenses

1

cheap

1

fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-

2

exact calculation; squaring of accounts; adjustment

2

the same generation; coeval

2

to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (a burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

1

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

spoiling (e.g. a plot); revealing (e.g. a trick); giving it away

1

to be inclined to do; to be willing to do

1

elementary; primary

5

lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades)

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one line; one stretch (e.g. of road); earnest; resolute; (arch.) one bloodline; (arch.) one clan

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