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human; humane

1

to love; to cherish; to show favouritism to; to be partial to; to fondle; to caress

1

hard to get; hard to come by

1

company president; manager; director

5

Kin'ichi

1

raising (a question); bringing up (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); (arch.) lifting up

1

firm; determined; resolute; conclusive

3

overthrow; defeat; bringing down; knockdown

5

protocol; written evidence; record (investigation, interrogation, etc.); preliminary memo; charge sheet

2

ahead; before; ago

2

Sekiya

5

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

1

compromise; giving in

1

afterwards

1

reward; honorarium; remuneration

1

forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money

1

extent to which (something) is true or false; whether or not (something) is true

2

blackmail; extortion; threat (to extort money)

3

acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption

2

in the ministry; in the department

3

secret feud; wordless pantomime performed in the dark (in kabuki)

3

Awaya

3

from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial

1

Ministry of Finance (1869-2001); Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system)

7

deep distress

1

idealism

4

faction; band

2

waste of time; killing time

1

short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole

1

used article; worn-out article; veteran; old-timer; long-established (way, method, etc.); old

3

precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)

1

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

1

internal or domestic affairs

2

collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing

1

inborn; innate; inherent; a priori

1

lawsuit; (legal) case

1

occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally

8

natural calamity; disaster

1

fall; drop; descent; coming down

1

crow (Corvus spp.); raven

1

male and female (animals); the two sexes; victory and defeat; strengths and weaknesses

1

in a quarrel, both parties are to blame

2

chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)

4

Italy

1

implantation; support; establishment

1

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

1

going out (before burning completely); dying out; fizzling out (e.g. of a plan); falling through; coming to nothing

1

branch (office)

1

to be obvious; to be obviously correct; (lit.) to point to one's palm

1

to do so; to do thus

4