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substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

1

uniformity; equality

1

arranging in order

2

to set up; to raise; to nominate; to choose as a representative; to push; to shove

1

aesthetic

1

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

1

shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties

1

to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one

2

tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

1

consistency

1

to sniff; to smell

1

thirst; craving; thirst (for love, knowledge, etc.); hunger

2

Shōwa period (1926-1989); Showa period

1

major incident; major happening; big scandal

2

Manchuria

1

accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency

1

study; learning; tutorial

8

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

8

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

1

February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt

3

military affairs

1

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

1

Island; insula; island; islet

3

very deep

1

tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain

1

symbolic

2

process; course; mechanism

1

subject of research

1

action of making something; -ification

2

patriotic concern for the future of one's country

5

autobiography

1

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

1

echo; reverberation

1

strange coincidence

1

entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university

4

Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)

1

island mountain

1

pen-name

2

outside the school; outside the university; unaffiliated with the university; off-campus; extramural

1

literary magazine

1

public; official

1

maiden work; debut work

1

flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom; the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty; booming or peaking (in popularity)

5

literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts

11

publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

2

Japanese literature

3

spring water; clear (pure) water

3

recommendation; referral; endorsement

4

dōjinshi; magazine published by like-minded people; fanzine; zine

2