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Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area

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

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imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

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ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)

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house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family

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underground train; subway

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railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

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shopping district; shopping street; downtown

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to close (one's eyes); to shut

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secondhand bookshop; antiquarian bookshop

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grandmother

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four years

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to die

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to close down a business; to shut a business

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ancient times

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being open but having virtually no business

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to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience

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cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

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one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

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fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs

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spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

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town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares

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to live; to make a living; to get on with

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thereafter

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family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade

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reopening; resumption; restarting

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arriving at the present; present-day; to arrive at the present day

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district of a town; city block (of irregular size)

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low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

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local people

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to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively

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Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned

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shop; small store; business; firm

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house; building

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fresh in one's mind; fresh in one's memory

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townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

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modern

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convenience store

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Gothic (style); Gothic (typeface)

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aroma; fragrance; scent; smell

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to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly

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brickwork

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inhabitant; resident; citizen; population

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Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill

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Nagoya (city)

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optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

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energetic

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(one's) older brother; lad; sonny

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today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

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to return; to come back

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