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influx of South Korean pop culture (into Japan)

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star (cinema, sports, etc.); celebrity; star symbol; asterisk; (celestial) star

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who

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dinner

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karaoke

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to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

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bingo

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photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

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foreign country

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coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK

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free time; time at leisure

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soul; soul music

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town; block; downtown; main street; street; road

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one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

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cooked rice

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one person; one customer; unmarried and childless older woman

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serving (of food); helping; chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce

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to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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around 50 (years of age, esp. women)

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cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

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circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

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only; nothing but

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(in spite of) being old enough to know better

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gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with vegetables

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shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention

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Western cooking; Western-style meal; Western-style food; Japanized Western cuisine

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to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold

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things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that

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mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

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to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

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yesterday

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in front of a station

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being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)

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for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze

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to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

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to smile

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relation; relationship

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painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

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be; is

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pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

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still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less

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there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you

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if it's the case

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should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

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debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

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near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides

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to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up

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hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

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hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa

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