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first wave

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trifles; minor details

1

assistant chief of staff, g2

5

follow-up report; further news

1

marching orders; sailing orders

2

uniformed personnel

1

civil servants; bureaucrat; the suits

1

(philosophy of) not rocking the boat; (principle of) letting sleeping dogs lie

2

final stage; final stretch; live printing area (in publishing); gallery (in a theatre); driving (animals, fish, etc.); herding

1

surprise attack; ambush

1

hideout (e.g. of fugitive from justice); hiding place

1

stay calm; don't be rushed; don't be flustered

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce); hanging; something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.); (kendo) loin guard; kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character; woman; -ass

1

engineer; technician

2

golf course; golf links

1

watch your step; slippery floor

1

ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant

1

service industry; service sector

1

to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

1

divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze

1

Mongol invasions of Japan (1274, 1281)

1

goddess

1

vanguard; advance-guard point; advance detachment; vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde

1

in any case; at all events; no matter how things turn out; whichever way it goes

1

authoritarian

2

friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy

1

certificate of merit; testimonial

2

making a living copying or writing

2

commendation ceremony; award ceremony

1

hurry; rush; simple; brief; rough; crude

1

bonbon

1

to be matched against (in a sports contest)

2

(work) performance evaluation; performance review; efficiency rating

1

reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence

1

barter

1

arrest without warrant

1

higher rank; better position

1

regular customer; general audience; general public

4

useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand

1

to allow a less skilled person to practice with one (esp. in sumo)

1

within the jurisdiction (of); one's jurisdiction; in a pipe

1

to push aside; to brush aside

1

ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions

1

to take root

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bulky and heavy; massive; solid; dignified; imposing; composed

1

to arrange one's hair; to tidy up one's hair

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symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk); turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

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being extremely bad or uncomfortable (at or with something); having a dread (of something)

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reissue; regrant

1