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They also worry that higher seafood prices would only worsen the shift in Japanese consumer tastes away from a traditional seafood-centered diet - known as sakana banare, or flight from fish.
Taipei Times 2008
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The story goes as the lingerie model Jessica Michibata is nicknamed "sakana chan" (fishy) because she drinks a lot of water to keep her complexion healthy.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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The story goes as the lingerie model Jessica Michibata is nicknamed "sakana chan" (fishy) because she drinks a lot of water to keep her complexion healthy.
Top 5 Most Outrageous Japanese Female Celebrity Nicknames 2007
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In addition to not being kosher for lighting i.e. a medura, this is a real sakana.
CONSUMER ALERT: Ready-to-Use Chanukah Candles | Jewschool 2006
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Reply being a high school teacher who has "cry me a river" in her head all the damn time tends to make one feel about 15.....anywhere i can find another adult who likes justin is a place i need to hang out. sakana
Justin Timberlake Live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 8/29/03 - Anil Dash 2003
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Fish and rice (sakana and meshi) are the most readily obtainable things to eat at a Japanese hotel, and often form the only bill of fare.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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Perhaps the spirit of this proverb may be better explained by the help of another: Nigeta sakana ni chisai wa nai; shinda kodomo ni warui ko wa nai -- "Fish that escaped was never small; child that died was never bad."
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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And Rabbi, WHY exactly is "an Obama win a sakana for Klal Yisroel?"
YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008
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Tokyo Toshokan 2008
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ruck = a valley that looks like a crease in the land's fabric saari = island, name of a Fling in the East Tendril sakana = a kind of fish, with buttery and tender flesh, very popular samaki = a kind of fish
SKENE GLOSSARY (SKENE TO ENGLISH) Maggie Jochild 2004
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