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brilliant achievement; spectacular feat; splendid accomplishment; remarkable deed

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social dumping

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dumping

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capital; principal

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office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)

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manual (operation)

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to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring

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female elevator operator; female lift attendant

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seeing; meeting

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elevator

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girl

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application information; application guidelines; application handbook

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question mark

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working hours; man-hours

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twelve o'clock; noon; midnight

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working; being employed; being hired

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offender; transgressor; violator

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urbanization; urbanisation

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increase in the level of academic achievement; popularisation of higher education

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high academic achievement; advanced academic training; higher education

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consumer; ordinary citizen; stakeholder; person who lives on (e.g. situation, income, place)

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typist

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number of copies printed

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moving picture

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movie theatre; movie theater; cinema

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silent movie

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voiced; vocal

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talkie (motion picture with sound); prerecorded announcement

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original method or procedure; serious; orthodox; classical

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wife; Mrs; proprietress; landlady; large women's size (clothing)

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Gosho Heinosuke (1902.1.24-1981.5.1)

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Watanabe Atsushi

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playwright; dramatist

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quiet (e.g. neighbourhood); peaceful; tranquil

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semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

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to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

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Western-style house

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to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed

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noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

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unable to do one's work; can't get anything done

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to resolve; to ready (oneself); to make up one's mind

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door; gate; opening; title page

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fascinating; voluptuous; bewitching; captivating

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jazz band

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to join in a (musical) performance

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Tanaka Kinuyo (1909.11.29-1977.3.21)

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lifestyle

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item; something that one "just has to have"

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to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)

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striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around

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