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  • One cricket that is very popular in Japan is called matsu-mushi.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2009

  • Ma ei saa oodata 640 000 aastat, et yellowstonei matsu näha.

    Jumper (2008) Ulmeguru 2009

  • Following World War II, the Forestry Agency of Japan promoted clear-cutting of the high-elevation conifer forests and replaced them with Japanese timber species such as sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) and Kara-matsu (Larix leptolepis).

    Biological diversity in Japan 2008

  • Chansu ga gûzen otozureru made kôdô wo okosu no wo matsu no machigatteiru...

    Slusho! Commercial Dennis 2007

  • Asa o matsu nami ni mi o makase modorenai basho o omotteru

    ianthopia Diary Entry ianthopia 2005

  • Had she detected a malfunction in the Haka-matsu system?

    Rama Revisited Clarke, Arthur C. 1989

  • He had that rare ability known to the Japanese as nariyuki no matsu, to wait for the turn of events.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • It is possible to translate the name Pining Wind because the same double meaning exists both in English and in Japanese: matsu means 'to wait' and 'pine tree.'

    Matsukaze 1978

  • ('A pine, one lone tree 'is matsu hito ki, which can also mean' the pining one comes. ')

    Matsukaze 1978

  • For a couple of miles the men raced along a level track cut on the side of a hill that rose steeply on the one hand and on the other fell away precipitously down to the sea until they halted with a sudden jerk beside a wooden gateway with a creeper-covered roof on either side of which two matsu trees stood like tall sentinels.

    The Shadow of the East

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