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What's the actual implication of 中止だ中止?

The following image has been going around Japanese twitter recently with the hashtag #中止だ中止, for two reasons: Feb 28, 2020 would have marked 147 days until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games There is considerable pressure at the moment to cancel the…
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How to interpret 感じの情報 in this sentence

This is from a blog about Death Note L及び警察側の状況整理という感じの情報が出されていきます。 From episode 2, the context is a reunion were the police and L are reviewing information about the kira case and one officer is reading tip offs. I'm trying to interpret this…
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Can "ケンカになったのよ" be talking about a hypothetical?

In the latest chapter of One Piece this exchange happens between おでん, a skilled swordsman wondering why his disciples won't learn his style and his wife, トキ: おでん: "おでん二刀流"最強だぞ?なぜ受けつがない!! トキ: ふふふケンカになったのよ。誰が一番弟子になるかで真剣の大ゲンカ。あなたが好きすぎて死者が出るとこだった In…
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How to interpret whose じいちゃん is being talked about

Context: A mom talking to her son disapprovingly about him turning the family liquor store into a convenience store. 死んだ親父がじいちゃんの代から受け継いだ酒屋を潰すなんて許さない How do we know whose じいちゃん is being talked about here? Is it the son's grandfather, or the…
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How would you interpret the sentence "他人と違って家族の縁はなかなか切れない。"?

1) I find hard to cut ties with my familly but other people find it easy (to cut ties with their family) 2)I find hard to cut ties with my family but I find easy to cut ties with other people 3)other (there is no context, this is an example…
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What function does ことをする serve here?

In ran into this sentence 「ベレト君は気に食わないこと全部に悪いことをしてました」 but I'm having a hard time making sense of it. I get that the first part means that "the stuff Beret finds distasteful". But I'm not sure how to fit that in the remaining which I'd reckon…
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How should I understand 「よくね」in this comic?

In the final comic of the web series 百日後に死ぬワニ ("The Crocodile Who Dies After 100 Days"), which you can access here if you don't mind the spoiler, the crocodile receives this final message: How should I understand「よくね」? How would the meaning…
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Interpreting 僅かばかりの生物

I have a question about the following sentence fragment. その巨体は残り少ない緑と僅かばかりの生物を食い荒らし Context: It's talking about a gigantic sand worm thing, that is in process of trying to eat someone. It's living in a desert with scarce greenery and life. What…
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this sentence containing an attributive phrase or is it 2 separate sentences with an omitted comma in between

I found this paragraph with a translation: この選択に至った理由はたくさんありますが、全て私の意思であり、その意思をKONAMI様は尊重して契約解除を決定して下さいました。 I have many reasons for reaching this conclusion but it is all my decision. I am grateful for Konami for respecting that decision. I…
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does もの mean thing here?

しかし禰豆子さんのかかっている暗示は人間が家族に見えるものでは? Does this mean thing? It feels like the もの substitutes 暗示, is my understanding correct?
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「来たるべきバカのために」 in a book title

The title of this book is 「勉強の哲学 来たるべきバカのために」. What's the intended meaning of 来たるべきバカのために? I would venture "For the fool who is to come" (i.e. 'the fool who will be with us in the future'), but why?
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Interpreting 既に終わってしまっている

I have a following sentence (probably): この惑星はもう「生命{いのち}を育む船」としては既に…終わってしまっているのだと It's from a manga and the narrator is speaking. I don't EXACTLY know who the narrator is supposed to be. Context wise it's happening on a dying desertified world and…
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