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to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

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Tokugawa

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world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

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to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to decline (e.g. of morals); to be lost; to go into decline (of a town, business, etc.)

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black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

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arrival of ships (from abroad); arrival by ship

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samurai; warrior

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national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

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tide; current; tendency; trend

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from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial

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annoying; infuriating; provoking; irritating; aggravating; vexing

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name; title

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expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation

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abolition of the han system and establishment of prefectures (1871)

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major powers of the world; great powers

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to stand, walk, etc. shoulder-to-shoulder; to be on a par with

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beyond one's means or position

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running fast; double time; cantering; doing things in a hurry

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rise of the curtain; opening of a play; beginning (e.g. of an era); start; opening (of a tournament, festival, etc.)

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Western-style; Western-fashioned

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to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

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to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain

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sudden change; upheaval

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plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

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petal

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Asia

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colonization; colonisation

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Europe and the United States; Europe and America; the West

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detonation by contact; contact detonation; touching off (something); triggering; sparking

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to sit in a row; to be arrayed

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enrich the country, strengthen the army

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political measures; policy

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military service; conscription

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Japan and Qing China

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Japan and Russia; Russo-Japanese

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Pacific War (1941-1945)

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outbreak (e.g. of war); outburst; sudden occurrence

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reckless; daredevil; frantic; foolhardy

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modernization; modernisation

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to go up the stairs; to climb the stairs

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unfair; unjust; wrongful; improper; unreasonable; unwarranted

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germ; germs; bacteria; something dirty or harmful; vermin

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and then; and so; and; so then

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to purify; to cleanse; to exorcise; to purge; to ward off

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to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into

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flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness

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famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

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dry riverbed; river beach

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to survive; to live long

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deadly serious; deadly earnest

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