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Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

2

looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia

1

act of terror; act of terrorism

1

unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous

4

general public; the masses

3

human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person

17

project

1

inhumane; inhuman

2

what sort; what kind

4

deliberately; intentionally; on purpose; purposely

1

calling by name; designation; nomination

2

definite; sure

2

to look at; to gaze; to stare at

5

to be photographed; to be projected

3

desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity

2

the oldest

2

temple (Buddhist)

2

characteristic

1

reinforced concrete construction

1

burned down; entirely destroyed

1

to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert

6

demolition; pulling down; destruction; dismantling

1

talk (of the town); rumour; rumor; gossip

1

posterity; future life; life to come

1

please; somehow or other; one way or another

4

prefectural governor

2

rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

2

cultural

1

Japonisme; Japonism

1

nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

6

sightseeing; tourism

4

exceptional

2

good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory

4

camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment

2

groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find

3

at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

3

initiative

1

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

1

multinational; transnational

2

good old; good old-fashioned

2

Japanese person; Japanese people

1

union; unity; bundling; binding; (arch.) putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)

1

fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion

6

wealthy people; the rich

3

transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance

3

ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

6

rickshaw; jinrikisha

1

running; gliding; first (harvest) of the season; beginning; start; kitchen sink

4

powerful

1

sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer

1