adviser; advisor; consultant
police officer; policeman; policewoman
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
Europe and America; the West
to incur someone's enmity
to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
established theory; accepted opinion; accepted explanation
to thrust before; to thrust at
twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days
total (full-scale) withdrawal; complete pullout (pullback)
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
proposal; proposition; suggestion
obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
supreme command authority (of the emperor)
Meiji Constitution (Constitution of the Empire of Japan)
under one's jurisdiction; having jurisdiction
General Staff Headquarters
direct control; direct supervision
Yamagata Aritomo (1838.6.14-1922.2.1)
elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
authority; power; influence
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
drifting; drift; being adrift
the ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
article (in document); provision; stripe; streak; although; though
partner country; other country (in a dispute, arrangement, etc.); opponent (country)
minority group (party); minority
immediate; prompt; quick; rapid; urgent; pressing
nature; property; disposition
extension of a straight line; (conclusion) following as an extension of (an argument)
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
right of self defense; right of self defence