jpdb beta

war; fighting; fierce competition

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to occur; to happen

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country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)

1

(political) power; authority; influence

1

oppression; suppression; pressure

1

to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into

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(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion

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fact; truth; reality

3

creed; doctrine; dogma

1

distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)

1

to come to mind; to pop into one's head

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Japan

1

founding a country; opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world; ending (a policy of) national seclusion

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prohibition; ban; embargo

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to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

2

fifty; 50

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granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman

2

very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just

1

time; years

3

people; men and women; each person; everybody

1

to alter one's state of consciousness; to change one's mindset; to change one's attitude

1

enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten

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to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote

1

settlement; solution; resolution

3

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

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precisely because

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to understand from experience

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to keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb

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sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

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to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on

1

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

2

pupil in ... year; student in ... year

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father

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to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken

3

mystery

1

novel; (short) story

1

result; consequence; coming to fruition; bearing fruit; as a result; consequently

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twelve; 12; queen (playing card)

2

monastery; convent; cloister; abbey

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disinheritance; disowning

2

wanted; wished for; in need of; I want (you) to

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Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!

3

persuasion

4

in contrast to (one's, its) appearance

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unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all

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the world of sumo

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show business; entertainment industry; world of entertainment

1

it's not like; it isn't as if

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something like ...; something called ...

2

in this way; thus; such; uh...

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