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• kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest) ➜ 神【かみ】
• goddess of (lucky) directions ➜ 歳徳神

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• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

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• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)

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• startup (point in) time

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• seeking a venue (usu. for litigation) - From English "forum shopping"

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• Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

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• canonization (in a textual sense)

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• count (after a knock-down in boxing) - Sports term - From English "count out"

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• trehalose (used in foods as a sweetener, stabilizer and flavor enhancer) (stabiliser) (flavour)

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• taking pictures (for a wedding, etc.) prior to the event

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• double-dipping (a food item in sauce)

noun:

• Heavenly Father (in Christiantiy); God

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• ritual to banish the sleep demon (esp. in Tōhoku)

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• multiple parallel fermentation (esp. in sake brewing)

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• sitting calmly and quietly (i.e. in order to meditate)

noun:

• terrible twos (developmental stage in toddlers)

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• second verse (in a linked series of poems)

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• binding particle (i.e. specifying an expression later in the sentence); linking particle; connecting particle - Linguistics term

noun:

• kitchen (in a restaurant)
• cook; chef - Kansai dialect ➜ 板前

noun:

• emergence (in evolutionary theory, systems theory, etc.)

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• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

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• bowing many times (in apology)

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• Paragaleus (genus in the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae)

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• stereotype (in printing)

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• original packaging (e.g. box holding several cartons, each with individually packaged products)