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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • And Rabbi, WHY exactly is "an Obama win a sakana for Klal Yisroel?"

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • WlÝ¢Fà¬cžoµ6: lengthi4569120e4: pathl34: [RFM] Cowgirl Ed OST [Ogg Vorbiss] 36: 04 - Kabutoga ni kodai no sakana. ogge10: path. utf-8l34: [RFM] Cowgirl Ed OST [Ogg Vorbiss] 36: 04 - Kabutoga ni kodai no sakana. ogge4: sha120: ÃBƒà

    Tokyo Toshokan 2008

  • 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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