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this year

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indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm

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feeling; sense; impression

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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Shinto shrine

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friend

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pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

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circumstances; condition; arranging; managing; lending money; raising money

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to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable

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cancellation; suspension

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to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

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talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor

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as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all

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alone; by oneself; on one's own

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going and worshipping (at a shrine or temple); visit (to a shrine or temple to worship)

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praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; strange (person); weird; odd

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this and that; various things

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kotatsu; table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

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to mellow (e.g. personality); to be rounded; to huddle; to cower

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contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation

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to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)

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daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period

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unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

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but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

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work; job; labor; work

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to end; to come to an end; to finish; to complete; to finish doing; to be past its (one's) prime

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if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so

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adds force to a statement, decision or conclusion; indicates command; (strongly) emphasizes the previous word; adds focus; some- (e.g. something, someone)

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thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work

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as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

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New Year's Day

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to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)

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how (beautiful, tasty, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name

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thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work

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will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope

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at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion

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disliking; not wanting; unpleasant; disagreeable; no!; quit it!

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presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

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just like; exactly like; as if; (do) just like ...; (be) virtually like ...; as if it were ...

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neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing

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back; behind; rear

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to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten

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sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

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but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...

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to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

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battle; fight; combat

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people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos

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Kawachi (former province located in the east of present-day Osaka Prefecture)

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-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person

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instinct

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