Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea
landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
thunderous roar; roaring sound
through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to shake; to sway; to waver
large hole; big deficit; heavy losses; long-shot win (in horse racing, etc.); big winnings (on a long shot)
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
bombarding; shelling; bombardment
to drift (to); to be washed ashore
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
a considerable number; a fair number
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
God; god; ace; king; superior person
end; close; finish; end of play (in go)
without losing time (e.g. to do); without even time for (doing something)
to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
backward glance; sidelong glance; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
protocol (in communications); protocol (diplomatic document); protocol (system of rules); protocol (of a scientific experiment or course of medical treatment)
automatic; intransitive verb