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• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

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• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

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• metallurgy (the science)

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• acute (of the shape of a leaf); acuminate; pointed ➜ 鈍頭

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• small part (of the whole) Antonym: 大部分

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• principle of nationality (according to which an offender should be tried in accordance with the law of his or her own country) ➜ 属地主義

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• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ➜ 中国国民党

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• greybearded pygmy goby (Trimma annosum, from the Indo-West Pacific)

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• Harriotta (genus with two species of long-nosed chimaeras in the family Rhinochimaeridae)

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• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

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• Mohe (one of the Tungusic-speaking tribes)

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• alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch) ➜ 完新世

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• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

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• last quarter (of the year)

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• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

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• inaw (ritual wood shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world.) - From Ainu

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• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

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• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards - abbreviation ➜ 押し競べ

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• phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) ➜ 鳳凰

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• gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)

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• judge (of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office); judicial officer; minister of justice
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office - abbreviation ➜ 弾正台

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• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

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• lampshell (excluding the lingulate brachiopods); lamp shell - obscure term ➜ 三味線貝

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• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

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• Ruth (book of the Bible)