wooden house; frame house (building)
incendiary bomb; firebomb
putting a plan into operation
official announcement; proclamation
100,000; hundred thousand
unprecedented in history; unheard-of; epoch-making
Great Tokyo Air Raid (March 10, 1945)
walking briskly; determinedly
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
facing south; southern exposure
grave marker; gravestone; headstone; writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)
suffocation; choking; asphyxia
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge
epidemic; plague; pestilence
many problems; various problems
clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight
blind (unscrupulous, indiscriminate) bombing
dilution; watering down; inflation (of budget, claim, etc.); padding
point of compromise; common ground
each and every person (saying); one and all; unanimously; in unison; separately; individually
rotation (e.g. of a duty); taking turns
eastern part; the east (of a region)
thousands; several thousand