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picture that changes as one folds or cuts it (e.g. from a picture of a smiling man to a man with a frown)

first period (e.g. first class in school day)

slash-and-burn farmer (in Korea)

to give one's first cry (of a newborn baby)

Sanbi (the three former provinces of Bizen, Bitchū and Bingo)

alert dialog (dialogue)

path to enlightenment

to come into focus

bypass tray

founding member (of a music group, etc.)

difference between night and day

bulb with reservoir

yardstick regulation (price regulation scheme)

Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands)

theory of ideas

Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)

desperate situation with no escape

rhythm method (for conceiving)

nothing new

TV announcer (in the full-time employ of a single broadcaster)

to make (with great attention to detail)

after age 7, boys and girls should be kept apart

to use as an example

mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)

immigration detention center

movie maker

incurable (illness)

first appointment (to a post)

incessant

Republic of Kazakhstan