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on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

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(turned out) all right in the end

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because of; owing to; due to

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occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling

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both (people)

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investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking

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postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)

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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

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October; tenth month of the lunar calendar

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first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month

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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

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planning; project; plan; design

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administration bureau

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Postal Services Agency

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project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

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group (usu. of people)

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total assets

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10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication

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yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle

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easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over

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employee; worker

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all people; everybody; ten thousand people

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corporate giant

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company employee; office worker; white-collar worker

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dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine

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foundation; basis

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establishment; settlement

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Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)

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(former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)

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(former) Japan Post

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100; hundred

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after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

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government; administration

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to become independent; to leave one's hands; to leave one's possession

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making efficient; optimization

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pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after

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private management

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to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)

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number of years

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counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation; reverse operation

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rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk

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to spread; to be propagated

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of no interest; not interested

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simmer; bubble out; flow out

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abalone; ear shell

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preliminary arrangements; preparation; spadework; pre-cooking

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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butter

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to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

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embarrassing

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