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Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

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sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)

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Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam

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expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

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more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time

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decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

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everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

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first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

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to defend oneself; to protect oneself

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(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody

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enemy (soldier)

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grandfather; male senior-citizen

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approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

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boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn

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misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess

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these guys; these fellows

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flight; desertion; escape

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prevention; check

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wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); wall (of stones)

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you (plural); all of you; you all

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idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

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to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to

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to be (doing)

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to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

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present; gift

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to do so; to do thus

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surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid

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that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)

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hey!; say!; I say!; I; me

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it seems so; that's what it looks like

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what would (you) do?; what to do about it

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pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

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purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

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to be lured; to be tempted; to go along with someone's suggestion; to be talked into doing

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war potential; military strength; fighting power; ability (to compete); capabilities; valuable asset

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to divide in two; to divide in half; to divide (among); to apportion; to portion out

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as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

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equal (distribution, treatment, level, etc.); even; uniform

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head start; initiative; preemption

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each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn

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to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down

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so; therefore; for that reason; if so; if that is the case; in that case

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versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing

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furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more

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part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

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to become better; to improve

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Kaoru

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Yahiko

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black suit; mourning clothes; black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)

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face; mask; face guard; striking the head (in kendo); surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect

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