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report; paper; reportage

2

strategy; tactics

3

great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious

5

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely

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George Ernest Morrison

2

non-commissioned military rank; military academy

5

defeat; loss; reverse; setback

3

Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty

11

empire; imperial

8

shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma

1

Opium War (1840-42)

1

since; henceforth

15

divine; imperial

1

favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude

1

west

6

(arch.) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian

3

discipline; punishment; reprimand

2

to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)

3

(arch.) warrior from the eastern parts of Japan; eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China)

2

reality; actuality; hard fact

1

the very thing; itself

8

body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health

1

enrich the country, strengthen the army (Meiji era government slogan)

1

Self-Strengthening Movement (political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty); Westernization Movement

2

no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not

1

to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment

1

national policy

2

conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover

1

(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)

1

(arch.) Japanese person

1

Meiji Restoration (1868)

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model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)

1

Earth Dog (35th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1958, 2018, 2078)

1

reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration

9

politics; government

8

reform; reformation; reorganization

4

number of days; period of days; daily interest rate

1

to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to

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conservatives

1

counterattack

3

tragic

1

ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat

1

hundred days; lengthy time

1

field; sphere; realm; division; branch

7

estimate; estimation

1

front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context

11

theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor

7

immediately following

3

constitution; rules; regulation

1

armed group

1