gunpowder magazine; magazine; explosives warehouse; (fig.) powder keg
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
rising to action; standing up against; jumping to one's feet
report; notification; registration
war area; battlefield; theater; theatre
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
people living on Honshu; mainland Japanese; Japanese people (as opposed to the people of the colonies of the Empire of Japan)
maharaja; maharajah; nawab
to line up with; to be a member of; to rank with; to attend; to take part in
to take responsibility (for a fallout); to accept the blame; to take the blame
compensation; reparations; indemnity; damages
Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
to consider carefully; to deliberate thoroughly; to think over
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
citizen of a prefecture; prefectural citizen
qualitative difference; disparity; gap
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)
outskirts; environs (of a city); surrounding area; surroundings
qualification requirement (for a job)
clerk; office worker; kulak
earring (non-pierced); helix
agricultural land; farmland
making people subjects of the emperor; imperialisation; imperialization
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
New Ainu Law (passed in 1997, aiming at promoting and protecting Ainu culture)
coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis
consoling the spirits of the dead
future (usually near); prospects
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus