poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
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
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs
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
glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling
to go astray; to become corrupt; to go bad
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
organic; coordinated; working in a coordinated fashion
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief
structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern
employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker
check; restraint; oppression; suppression
material; substance; matter
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
estrangement; neglect; alienation; casting out; ostracism; giving the cold shoulder
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
to take back; to recapture