tailspin; spin; drilling; boring
technique; art; skill; move
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
plea; entreaty; supplication
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
out of control; out of hand; unmanageable; nothing one can do
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
to feel anxious; to feel nervous; fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears); hanging untidily (of hair); straggling
to vacate; to surrender (e.g. a castle); to give up (e.g. a position); to hand over (e.g. power)
after a long time; for the first time in a while
Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)
district; section; sector
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
advance party; advance team; advance group; vanguard unit
Imperial Hotel (in Tokyo)
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
new; unused; new; obvious; natural
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
going into a frenzy; flying into a rage
formation (e.g. of aircraft)
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
a blooming cut flower; glorious death
to be ready and waiting for; to be on the alert for
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
postponement; deferment; adjournment
to postpone; to defer; to reschedule
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
samurai receiving this much rice as a fee; offering of rice cake containing this much rice; person receiving this amount of money as a salary
indication; sign; hint; tone (of the market)