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三
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ancient triangular-rimmed mirror decorated with gods and animals
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conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)
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three great nobles of the Restoration; three statesmen (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi) who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration
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1932 Theses (Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems)
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three cavalry disciplines (dog hunting, hat shooting, and horseback archery)
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land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
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Disturbance of the Three Ports (riots in Korea in 1510); Sampo Waeran
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Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
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Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Historical term; 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'
Three Alls Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)
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conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)
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three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)
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Sanriku offshore earthquake (esp. June 15, 1896, March 3, 1933, and March 11, 2011); Sanriku earthquake
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anti-communism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism (policy of the Socialist Masses Party)
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Three Noes (former Taiwan policy of no contact, no negotiation and no compromise with China)
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the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)