businessman; industrialist
government; administration
main or important road; influential or important position; the authorities
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
blackmail; extortion; threat (to extort money)
that field; the authorities (esp. the police)
to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down
independent; responsible; active; subjective
influence; power; might; strength; potency; force
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
objection; dissent; protest
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
outward; superficial; external; apparent
nice; likeable; desirable
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
standing for; advocating; championing; professing (to be)
koshinbun (type of early Meiji-era newspaper); minor journal; local newspaper
readership; target audience (of a magazine)
commerce; trade; business
home and abroad; domestic and foreign; inside and outside; interior and exterior
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
red-light district; pleasure quarters; world of the geisha; demimonde
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
implication; significance; connotation; depth of meaning; complications of a problem
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
popular will; will of the people
making rapid progress; making great advances; rush; dash; onslaught
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
the big two...; two major...; two main...
Great Kanto earthquake of 1923