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office (e.g. the Oval Office)

4

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

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to like; to love; to be fond of

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to like; to prefer

2

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

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clique; faction

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recommendation; referral; endorsement

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obstruction; hindrance

3

to be sorry; to beg someone's pardon; to be much obliged; to be grateful; to be amazed; to be greatly impressed

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frank; candid; straightforward; openhearted; direct; outspoken

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to hold back (someone) from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

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treatment; conduct (towards another); behavior; stage performance; movements (of an actor); acting gestures

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a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago

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Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

2

looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia

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act of terror; act of terrorism

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abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky

4

general public; the masses

3

human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person

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project

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inhumane; inhuman

3

deed; act; conduct; behavior; asceticism

2

what sort; what kind

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deliberately; intentionally; on purpose; purposely

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calling by name; designation; nomination

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definite; sure

2

to look at; to gaze; to stare at

5

to be photographed; to be projected

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desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity

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the oldest; the earliest

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temple (Buddhist)

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characteristic

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reinforced concrete construction

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total destruction by fire; being burned down

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to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert

6

demolition; pulling down; destruction; dismantling

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talk (of the town); rumour; rumor; gossip

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posterity; future generations; future life

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prefectural governor

2

rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

2

cultural

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Japonisme; Japonism

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nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

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sightseeing; tourism

4

exceptional; unusual

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good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory

4

camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment

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groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find

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at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

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initiative

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