Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
present; current; in operation
war; battle; match; game; competition
Napoleon; napoleon (Japanese card game)
armed forces; military; troops
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
no use; useless; not fit for its purpose
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining
to need; to demand; to take; to require
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district
breeding; raising; rearing
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-
institution; establishment; facility; home (for elderly, orphans, etc.)
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
calculation; estimation; computation
duty; function; office; mission; task