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Japan

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postal system

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group (usu. of people)

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indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

67

year before last

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

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Australia

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indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

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physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics

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largest company; industry leader

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Toll Group

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achievement; performance; results; work; contribution

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indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

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(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

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previous year (fiscal, academic, etc.)

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settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)

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at; in; at; when; by; with; and then

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about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

1

10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

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yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle

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loss (of assets, profit, etc.)

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indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

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including a sum of money in one's calculations; appropriation (a sum of money)

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to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

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result; consequence; coming to fruition; bearing fruit; as a result; consequently

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postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)

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after

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for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first

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last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)

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(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

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at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

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fall; tumble; spill; degradation; comedown; demotion

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seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

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market; fair

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I; me

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house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

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if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question

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honorific/polite/humble prefix

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vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts

5

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

7

to burn; to get fired up

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Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker

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this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

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inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during

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sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

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

1

seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!

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suffix for familiar person

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to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use

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high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine

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