government agencies concerned with ...
expulsion of a public official and subsequent ban on participating in politics (by the SCAP during the allied occupation); purge
top-ranked firm; top-tier corporation; leading company; prestigious company; stellar company
foreign company; overseas enterprise; overseas firm
remain standing; keeping standing (all the way)
The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; JCCI
Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)
lieutenant general (army)
reconciliation of interests; settlement of interests
Great Tokyo Air Raid (March 10, 1945)
The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright)
transit point; transit airport; connection airport
radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast August 15, 1945)
postman; postwoman; postal delivery worker
rental house; rental housing; house to let
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
nervous; neural; neurogenic
gastritis; gastric catarrh
overly optimistic; misjudged; underestimated
highest level; high-water mark
that's (as in "that's all")
emergency demands; special procurement (particularly in time of war)
study tour; guided visit; field trip
all-out confrontation; total confrontation
Japan Business Federation; Keidanren