before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
sliced ginger prepared in vinegar (served with sushi); pickled ginger; mimeograph; reprimand; rebuke; overly skinny person
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
tunnel; to tunnel (through a potential barrier); letting a grounder go through one's legs
to be in focus; to come into focus
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
to trample; to crush underfoot
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
main theater of war; principal battlefield
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
to check; to stop; to keep back
lessening; diminishing; reducing
trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
to abuse; to exploit to the full; to give free rein to
evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
to pluck; to pick; to nip off
economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
country; territory; domain; realm
annexation; merger; swallowing up
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
military personnel; soldier
supreme command authority (of the emperor)
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; (lit.) fifteen years' war