to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
scattering of ashes (cremated remains)
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)
reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; retrogradation; retrogression
belief that everything can be explained by science; scientism
to be born again; to make a fresh start in life
entropy; entropy (information theory)
impossible; unlikely; improbable
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
thereupon; shortly thereafter
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
dispatch; despatch; transmission; informing (e.g. of opinion); sharing (thoughts, etc.); telling
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
as you see; as you can see
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
Asahi Shimbun (newspaper)
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
decline; fall; decay; withering
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)
systematization; systematisation; organization; organisation
modernization; modernisation
to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture
locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet); to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution
spirit of the age; zeitgeist
certainly; really; truly; possibly; maybe; perhaps