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to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

2

to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in

2

customer; client; patron

3

manufacture; production

1

original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

1

ramen; Chinese-style noodles

3

yakiniku; Japanese dish of grilled meat similar to Korean barbecue; roasted meat; grill

1

mentsuyu; noodle soup base; mixture of dashi, soy sauce, mirin and sugar

2

cooking oil

1

manufacturer (esp. a major company); producer; maker; maker (person or device that makes something)

1

(being in) the black; surplus; black letter

1

settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)

1

Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)

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Tochigi (city, prefecture)

1

manufacturing plant; production facility

1

north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

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Kantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures); Kantō (eastern half of Japan; during the feudal era)

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Osaka (city)

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Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

1

branch office

2

Tokyo

1

head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine

4

each; every; all

3

branch office; branch store

1

chief; main; principal; important

1

transactions; dealings; business

1

what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called

1

jump; plunge; dive; appearing without an appointment; bursting in; arriving unannounced

1

Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)

2

to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)

1

summer

3

within the (Tokyo) metropolitan area

2

opening a new store; opening a new branch; setting up a stall (at a festival, trade fair, etc.); setting up a booth; exhibiting

4

future prospects; promise

1

supermarket

1

to take over (someone's duties, business, etc.); to inherit; to succeed to; to hand over

1

finding employment; getting a job

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

2

opening a new shop; opening a shop (for the day)

2

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

1

to let go of; to release; to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go

1

still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least

2

accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank

4

lunch; midday meal

1

direct control; direct supervision

1

person in charge (of an area of work, etc.); person responsible; contact (person)

3

actually; in fact; as a matter of fact

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methodical; precise; meticulous; wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

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imperial palace; shrine; Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; elderly woman of imperial lineage

2

transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover

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