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visit to Japan

1

two years before

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Great Kanto earthquake of 1923

2

amount of money; sum of money

1

large amount of money; great cost

1

to hand over; to surrender

1

exclusive; exclusionary; restrictive; clannish

1

immigration law

2

messenger; envoy; emissary

1

self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)

4

progress; advance; improvement; development

2

metropolis; big city

1

several tens

2

storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building

1

high-rise building; tower block; skyscraper

1

department store

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chain store

1

online shopping service (with delivery by mail); mail order; mail-order sales; shop-by-mail service

1

appearance; arrival; make one's appearance

1

consumer culture

1

prototype

1

ford; Ford (car)

1

mass production

1

car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto

3

development; exploitation

1

5,000,000; five million; (arch.) many

1

stand; rack; support; holder; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level)

2

manufacture; production

1

assembly-line system

1

price; cost

1

lifestyle

2

in detail; with great care; completely; fully

1

throwaway; disposable; single-use

1

strong person; the strong; the powerful

1

circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money

1

weak person; the weak; vulnerable person; disadvantaged person

1

to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about

1

neighborly love; neighbourly love

1

messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

1

honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion

1

realism

2

hypocrisy

2

good and evil

1

postponement; deferment; extension (of time)

1

maturity; ripeness

1

First World War (1914-1918); World War I; WWI; WW1

1

abstention; nonintervention; noninterference

2

submarine

1

indiscrimination; without discrimination; indiscriminate

1

participation in a war; going to war; taking part in a competition or contest

2