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(one's) seated posture

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East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

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to abide one's shame

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to punish; to penalize; to penalise

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supreme ruler; generalissimo; president (of Taiwan); führer; fuehrer

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following month

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May; fifth month of the lunar calendar

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unconditional surrender

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Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)

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July; seventh month of the lunar calendar

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twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days

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Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

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Japanese government

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sixth day of the month; six days

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Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

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atomic bomb; A-bomb

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local time

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declaration of war

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edict; ordinance; proclamation

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Nagasaki (city, prefecture)

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acceptance

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radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast August 15, 1945)

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demise

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a period of two days

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comatose state

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sporadic; scattering

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signing ceremony

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to finish

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dismissal (from a post); discharge; removal

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removing a name; expelling (e.g. from school); decommissioning

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to make; to make (something) what it should be; to cause to be

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vanguard; advance guard

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making one's best exertions

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allied nations; the Allies (World War I, World War II); Allied powers

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General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

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extermination; annihilation

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occupied territory

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reduction; curtailment

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as; because; with; due to

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return of something; repayment

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bay; gulf; inlet

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scolding

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to compare (e.g. in a competition)

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loitering on the way; wayside grass

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pregnancy; conception

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easy to imagine

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grace (of God); divine favour; benefit; efficacy

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to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down

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to get thin; to taper off

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loudly (wailing, making a noise, etc.)

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