non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin
halo; hello; hallo; harrow
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
putting one's affairs in order; ordering one's affairs; tidying up
to provide against contingencies; to prepare for the worst
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms
to live through; to survive
adverse circumstances; adversity
to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain
in comparison to; rather than
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
declaration of war; proclamation of war
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
quietly; calmly; comfortably; peacefully
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
danger; peril; hazard; risk
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
hostile nature; inimical character
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
relationship between Japan and the United States; Japanese-American relations
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
that day; the very same day
please; somehow or other; one way or another
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
in succession; one by one
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view