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そのため
にほん
日本
ぞうせん
造船
こうかい
航海
ぎじゅつ
技術
はったつ
発達
られる
まで
もじどお
文字通
ことう
孤島
なって
きんりん
近隣
ちいき
地域
かくぜつ
隔絶
される
ことなる
Therefore, until it developed the arts of shipbuilding and ocean navigation, Japan was an island country literally isolated from its neighbors.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
noun
1. good; advantage; benefit; welfare  (see also: 為に; often written with kana only)
2. sake; purpose; objective; aim  (often written with kana only)
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2
noun
Japan
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0
shipbuilding
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0
Most common form: 中黒
noun
middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)
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1
sail; voyage
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1
noun
1. technology; engineering
2. technique; skill
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0
development; growth
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1
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
2. to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge  (see also: 診る)
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0
particle
1. until (a time); till; to; up to  (often written with kana only)
2. to (a place); as far as  (often written with kana only)
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3
1. literal
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi)
2. literally
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0
noun
solitary island
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1
1. now; "in"; trendy  (originally from eng 'now')
noun (suffix)
2. in the middle of doing...; currently...  (esp. in status updates in social media; slang)
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0
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
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1
noun
area; region
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0
isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility; sequestration
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2
noun
1. thing; matter  (often written with kana only)
2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis  (often written with kana only)
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1
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain  (often written with kana only)
2. to result in; to prove to be
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Kanji
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
ホン   book   もと origin   
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ゾウ   つく to build, to produce   
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セン   ふね    ふな- ship   
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なかぐろ middle dot   
コウ    sailing, navigation   
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カイ   うみ ocean   
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ギ   わざ technique   
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ジュツ    technique   
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ハツ   ホツ    emission, discharge   
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タツ    arrive   
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ケン   み to see   みえる to be seen; to appear   みせる to show   
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ブン   モン    literature   ふみ a letter   
ジ   character   あざ village section   
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ツ   ツウ   とお to pass through   とお to let pass   かよ to commute   
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コ    alone   
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トウ   しま island   
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キン   ちか close   
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リン   となり next door, neighboring   とな to neighbor   
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チ   ジ    ground   
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イキ    region, area   
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カク   へだてる to set apart, to separate, to isolate   へだたる to be distant from   
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ゼツ   たえる to die out   たやす to eradicate   た to sever, to cut off   
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