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paper doll modeled after a kimono-clad woman

ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

prop

survival of the fittest

subsidization of private schools (subsidisation)

Lupus (constellation)

left hand drive (of cars, etc.)

simultaneous equations

registered real-estate broker

knowing look

(Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services)

hydroelectric plant or power station

number of pages

settlement for a dispute (esp. one caused by an affront or blunder)

National Athletic Meet

vegetarian cuisine originally derived from the dietary restrictions of Buddhist monks

international trade fair

paper store

reading (Chinese) without syntactical rearrangement into Japanese

Ursa Minor (constellation)

area of a piece of land

parasite volcano

experimental fishery station

conclusion (completion) of negotiations

leader of a group of juvenile delinquents

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half

collection of words or drawings by several people on a single sheet of paper

Japanese and Chinese literature

reading (someone else's letter, diary, etc.) surreptitiously

increasing the number (of trains, planes, etc.) in operation