restoration; return to health
Fiscal Investment and Loan Program; FILP
foreign loan; foreign debt; foreign bond
passive; negative; conservative; depolarization
lowering; sinking; depreciation; price fall; punch line (of a rakugo story); (arch.) sword strap
leak (of information); leakage (of electricity)
vocational school; technical school
reform bill; reform proposal; amendment
dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview
to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
Minister for Foreign Affairs
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
serious wound; serious injury
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
destruction; collapse; crumbling
First World War (1914-1918); World War I; WWI; WW1
adding (equipment, facilities, etc.); establishing more; installing more; increase; extension; expansion
Constitutional Nationalist Party (1910-1922); Guomindang (Chinese Nationalist Party); Kuomintang
huge win; overwhelming victory
attractiveness; charm; amiability
ordinary citizen; the general public
blood spilt from the body; blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
feng (male Chinese firebird)
morning star; Venus; preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
Matsuyama (city in Ehime)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
leaving school during a term
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation
hemoptysis; coughing up blood; lung hemorrhage (haemorrhage)
lung disease; chest trouble; pulmonary tuberculosis
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)