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each locality; each place; each region

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powerful person; influential person

4

quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord

3

arbitration; intercession; mediation

2

time; season; period; phase; stage

9

to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage

2

extension; elongation; prolongation; Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)

1

pipe; tube

4

Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)

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underground train; subway

2

Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint

3

to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray

10

metropolitan governor; governor of Tokyo

2

post-war recovery; post-war reconstruction

1

eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg

1

grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL

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improvement project; construction plan; maintenance plan; maintenance schedule; maintenance program

3

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

5

theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan

2

(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

4

capital city; metropolis

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tourist attraction; sight-seeing area

6

center; centre

2

in order to do; for the purpose of doing

7

plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme

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to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)

4

city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis

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skyscraping; very high; above the clouds; above this mortal world

3

symbol

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cyber

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lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger

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gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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very; much; greatly; a lot of

1

prosperity; thriving; flourishing

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high-end residential area; affluent neighbourhood

2

northwest

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south

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to glare at each other; to confront each other

3

buffer zone

1

to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)

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eccentric; crank; oddball

2

struggle for existence

3

to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake

10

the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan

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phantom; vision; illusion

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to pursue

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lawless area; lawless district

2

ghetto

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elevated (structure); overhead

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