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futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

2

death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

4

to desire; to want; to expect (of someone); to hope for; to see; to command (a view of)

1

to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do

13

prompt; immediate; in real time

1

battle; fight; combat

1

action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation

1

stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, a licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition

1

crying loudly; bawling; wailing; crying one's eyes out (without making noise); breaking into a flood of tears; crying buckets

1

Tokyo

10

to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve; to transfer (phone call)

1

correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

4

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

6

armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track

1

river; stream; River; the ... river

1

guns; firearms

1

battalion

1

Watase

6

battalion commander

1

be; is

1

one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)

1

to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart

1

to conceal oneself; to hide; to endure; to bear; to stand

2

difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy

1

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

1

troops; group members; team members; SDF officials

1

counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

4

gun; cannon; artillery; ordnance

1

fate; destiny; lot

2

to do together; to share; to participate in

1

suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up

1

self-determination; suicide

1

at once; immediately; right away; directly (face, lead to, etc.); automatically (mean, result in, etc.)

1

to get in touch with

2

all; every

1

circuit; line

1

to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend

7

no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook

1

to be connected (to); to be joined together; to connect (of a telephone call, the internet, etc.); to get through; to lead (to an outcome); to bring about (a result); to be lined up (e.g. of cars)

1

to be heard; to be audible; to sound (like); to come across (as); to be well known; to be famous

2

radio (communication); wireless; not using wires

6

to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get

1

cease-fire deal

1

together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

1

surrender

1

captive; prisoner (of war)

1

to give up (an idea or plan); to abandon; to refrain from (doing); to change one's mind

2

already; previously; before; undeniably; unmistakably

2

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

1