no-hit, no-run game; no-hitter
detention or internment camp
paper patch; paper backing; poster; sticker; label
suitable; satisfactory; desirable
written question; questionnaire
Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
container for boiled rice
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
to become thin; to fade; to grow pale
sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan
United States Army; U.S. Army
surmise; guess; inference
Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
bridal costume; wedding dress
Saipan (island near Guam)
to feel keenly; to strike to the core; to touch to the quick; to pierce deep inside (e.g. cold)
written notification; notification (written)
non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin
Department of the Army; Ministry of the Army (Japan; 1872-1945)
dry field farming; dry field crop
fumi-e; fumie; tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample; allegiance test; loyalty test
to be stripped of all one's clothes; to lose everything one has
nation at war; militant nation
to concern; to be related
to redeem debts (e.g. of a geisha)