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かいぜん, 改善
Takes suru, Transitive, Intransitive
1. betterment, improvement
oft. written カイゼン
2. kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
2国間の貿易上のアンバランスを改善しなければならない。
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, 乃
Particle, orig. written 乃 or 之
1. indicates possessive
2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
See が・1
3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
at sentence-end; falling tone
4. indicates a confident conclusion
Female term or language, at sentence-end
5. indicates emotional emphasis
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