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泉
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eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)
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tax certificate slip; statement of earnings; tax-income certificate
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hot spring resort where customers can bathe without spending the night
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a virtuous person should not commit an act that offends their moral principles no matter how hard pressed they may be
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Proverb
better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty
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渇しても盗泉の水は飲まず。
The eagle does not catch flies.
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Colloquial
the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi
