chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
Japanese residents in another country; Japanese expatriates
pillage; plunder; looting; robbery
news; word; tidings; omen
Japanese national (esp. abroad); fellow countryman
out of necessity; with no other option; perforce; unavoidably; reluctantly; unwillingly
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
war; fighting; fierce competition
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
Japan and China (esp. before WWII)
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot
different opinion; objection
to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
money-making; earning money
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away
to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled
(saying) with one voice; unanimously; in chorus; in unison; as one
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
early (days); initial stage; initial
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
residence; housing; residential building
popular figure; person in demand; favorite; favourite
slight; thin; on the weak side
to shove in; to push in; to force in
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
reception room; parlor; parlour
flopping (e.g. on a bed); scattering (e.g. limbs horizontally)
state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome
summer heat; hot weather; (arch.) heatstroke
clerk; secretary; writing down; putting on record
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment