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aquaculture; culture; cultivation; raising

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

1

eating between meals; snacking

1

to speak frankly; to put things bluntly

5

luxury; extravagance; treat (i.e. at somebody's expense)

1

hooray; yay; whee; yowzer; whoopee; yes

4

big catch (fishing); good haul

1

bill; note (currency)

1

attaining Buddhahood; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana; going to heaven; resting in peace; dying (peacefully)

1

revengeful ghost; apparition

1

jurisdiction; control

1

Monday

2

to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

4

intimacy; friendship

1

to switch (secretly); to substitute; to sidestep (an issue)

1

to penetrate; to pervade; to spread

5

to hold one's tongue; to shut up

15

straightforwardly; readily; without hesitation

4

tubular nectary; spur

1

carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease

3

pile; accumulation

1

point in common; common term; common trait; common denominator

1

without

4

rare; uncommon

1

on the way back; returning

1

Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)

1

the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)

3

to invite

1

opportunism; double standards; timeserving; expediency

1

capital crime; crime resulting in a death penalty

1

kindergarten graduation ceremony

1

carelessness; careless mistake; wetting oneself; soiling oneself; (arch.) crude; (arch.) coarse

2

firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys)

3

attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism

1

storefront; shopfront

1

neighborhood association; neighbourhood association

1

illumination; decorative lighting

11

eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building

1

arch; home run

1

planetarium

1

bell (often globular)

1

Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir

2

red nose

1

reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

1

speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble; blowoff; effusion; blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)

1

Merry Christmas

2

light emitting diode; LED

1

tree (e.g. Christmas); tree structure; tree diagram

65

(arch.) to spin; (arch.) to revolve; to be dizzy; to feel faint; to bustle about

2

to behave well (of a child)

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