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minority ethnic group; ethnic minority; minority race

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medical apparatus; medical instruments

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academic paper; scholarly paper; academic article; treatise

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affectation; pretension; thin veneer; blunt sword with a tempered steel edge

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low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)

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teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou dynasty Chinese army)

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special order (goods); custom (made); bespoke

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monoplane

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Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star

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previously; already; for some time; for quite a while

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North Pacific

1

float; pontoon; float (beverage with ice cream floating in it); float

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on the snow

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to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

2

boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn

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to enliven; to liven up; to cause a stir in (e.g. the newspapers); to make prosperous

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Canada

2

Bering Sea

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Kamchatka

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Sakhalin (Russia)

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(meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap; shipwreck; distress

1

Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)

1

Nemuro

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Kasumigaura

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to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch

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banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up

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calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")

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I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

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courtesy call; courtesy visit

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friendship; goodwill; friendly relations; amity

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exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC

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promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on

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ambitious (heroic) undertaking; daring enterprise; grand scheme

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(typically) Japanese

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event; function

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Osaka (city)

1

tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous

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Fukuoka (city, prefecture)

1

rising water (of river, lake, etc.); swelling water; increased water; high water

1

overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora; abundance (esp. of something undesirable)

1

Yangtze River (China); Changjiang River; long river

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Nanjing (China); Nanking; pumpkin; squash; Chinese; Southeast Asian

1

burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture

1

accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right

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Chiang Kai-shek (1887.10.31-1975.4.5); Jiang Jieshi

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Song dynasty (of China; 960-1279); Sung dynasty; Liu Song dynasty (of China; 420-479); Liu Sung dynasty; Song (ancient Chinese state; 11th century-286 BCE); Sung

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homesickness

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October; tenth month of the lunar calendar

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sudden death

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Shanghai (China)

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