cannot bring oneself (to do); unable to bear (e.g. seeing)
homecoming; returning home
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
urban area; urban district
prosperity; flourishing; thriving
agricultural community; farm village; rural
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
qualitative difference; disparity; gap
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
adhesion; conglutination; collusion; collusive relationship
to take to defending oneself above all; to save one's skin
elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official
food; foodstuff; prey; victim
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs
newspaper reporter; print journalist
food and drink; eating and drinking
Japan; the (Japanese) empire
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
puff piece (in a newspaper, etc.); flatteringly exaggerated article; sycophantic article
to be a willing cats-paw; to willingly act as someone's tool
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
change; transformation; innovation; Reformation
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling
to shine; to glitter; to sparkle
to recall; to remember; to recollect
to go astray; to become corrupt; to go bad
to go mad; to go crazy; to go insane
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamor (for or against); to clamour (for or against)
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
society; the world; the times
to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath
to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily