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white sands and green pines

White Tiger (Taoist god said to rule over the western heavens)

any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

Aries (1st zodiacal sign)

being returned (sent back) to the drawing board

albino Japanese rat snake

silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima)

white kidney bean

platinum group metals

Iwanami Kokugo Jiten (Japanese dictionary published by Iwanami Shoten)

obligation of restitution

blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)

(telephone) transmitter

limbic system

to be placed on

gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

Hakutsuru (brand of sake)

percentage function

alstroemeria

million times

night-watch bell

butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc. for later consumption

let a hundred flowers blossom

next-door neighbors

for the sake of argument

veteran

prince consort

to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)

spirits of past emperors

investigation committee of a local assembly (under Section 100 of the Local Government Act)