Let's play Standard Shiritori! しりとりをしましょう！

Japanese
#3303

いまいち - not quite (right)

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#3304

近く（ちかく）near

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#3305

口紅 (くちべに) = Lipstick.

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#3306

日記 ( にっき) - diary

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#3307

Firstly, wow I keep picking words that end with ‘n’ for some reason, I keep forgetting aha.
Here’s my word 機動隊 (きどうたい) Riot police

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#3308

遺産税(いさんぜい) inheritance tax

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#3309

居酒屋（いざかや）bar

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#3310

役所 (やくしょ) = Government Office.

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#3311

将軍 (しょうぐん) General

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#3312

しりとり！:grin:

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#3313

リモート - remote ‘something’

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#3314

蜥蜴 (とかげ) Lizard

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#3315

玄米 (げんまい) - unpolished rice

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#3316

いざ come now, well

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#3317

座敷童子(ざしきわらし) a protective household diety, looks like a child with bobbed haircut.

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#3318

使用人（しようにん）employee

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#3319

Oh my! What a naughty employee!

しろとり!

I see this is a 妖怪. I quite like its representation:
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Nice word too! I’ve seen this expression: トカゲの尻尾切り, literally ‘a lizard’s shedding of its tail​’ but used in the sense of ‘letting the blame fall/putting the blame on a subordinate without doing anything about it’.

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#3320

竜（りゅう）:dragon:
lately I’ve been watching 「タイガー＆ドラゴン」aka 虎:tiger:&竜:dragon_face:

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#3321

海辺(うみべ) beach

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#3322

別荘 (べっそ) = Villa.

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