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Ganbatte

Literal Translation

(頑張って) Persist, do your best, hold firm — an exhortation to effort under difficulty. More precise than "good luck" because it locates the outcome in effort rather than fortune. Both encouraging and, in Japan's achievement culture, a form of expectation.