jpdb beta

Japan

1

(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means

2

distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)

1

such; like that; that sort of; very

1

ideal; ideals

1

to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for

1

to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely

1

evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail

1

betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer

2

thought; idea; ideology

1

Europe and America; the West

1

major powers of the world; great powers

1

modernization; modernisation

3

to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

2

Meiji Restoration (1868)

1

by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)

1

fact; truth; reality

1

continuation

1

impossible

1

indemnities; reparations

1

settlement; an agreement

1

Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

1

leadership; initiative; spearhead

1

limit; bound

1

near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly

4

distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

2

means; way; measure

1

the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district

1

protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm

1

to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to

1

in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

1

emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant

1

to become stronger; to grow in intensity; to grow violent; to invite contributions, etc.; to solicit help, participation, etc.; to recruit (e.g. soldiers)

1

multiracial nation; multiethnic country

1

to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

1

assistance; help; helper; babe; chick; broad

1

to relax; to make oneself comfortable

1

comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

1

the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state

1

clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect

1

tool; implement; means; furniture

1

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

1

mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)

1

(feeling of) indebtedness; feeling obliged

1

duty; role; function

3

to survive

2

still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet

1

pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

1

whale meat

2

miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling

4