jpdb beta

to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

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open; frank; outspoken; unreserved; straightforward; honest

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

2

great; grand; extensive; large-scale

1

publicity; advertisement; advertising; propaganda

1

dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

2

eagerly; earnestly; ardently

4

to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)

5

to get away without consequences; to get off scot-free

1

exaggerated; bombastic; highly colored; highly coloured

1

intimate; close

1

without

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

1

adaptation; accommodation; conformity

1

to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

2

the former

1

the latter

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Nagano (city, prefecture)

12

arriving in Japan; visiting Japan

105

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta, esp. the Japanese ptarmigan, Lagopus muta japonica); grouse

1

birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)

1

samurai; warrior; military family

2

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

1

real name (of a deceased person or a noble); posthumous name

2

flight; running away; absconding; elopement

1

corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

5

as always; as usual

1

witnessing; observing; sighting

1

Naruyama

6

summit (of a mountain)

6

modern times; the modern age; this day and age

1

which; what (way)

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

1

even though it is not; despite not

2

investigator; one who seeks the way

1

extreme; extremity

1

impression

5

(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality

1

certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

1

creed; belief; conviction; article of faith

4

belief; faith; conviction

3

along; parallel to; in accordance with

1

(beyond the) limits; scope; boundary

1

head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

3

to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate

2

to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

1

honesty; integrity; purity and unselfishness

1

(trend of) the times; current of the times; spirit of the age

2

difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn

1

easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk

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