role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
early (days); initial stage; initial
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
underwater navigation; going underground; going into hiding; travelling incognito
firmly rooted; deep-seated
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
meeting; facing; confronting
Manchurian Incident (1931); Mukden Incident
Shanghai Incident (1932); January 28 Incident; Battle of Shanghai (1937)
all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land; far and wide; (in) every port and harbor
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
to betray; to turn traitor to; to double-cross
a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section
dew; tears; (not) a bit; (not) at all
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
the press; journalism; fourth estate
to pierce; to penetrate; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to feel keenly; to make a deep impression
pressure; encouragement; urging; promoting
(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas
Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)
one after another; in succession; in a row
inflammatory; lascivious; sensational
the West; the Occident; Western countries
to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate
businessman; industrialist
groundless rumor (rumour)