futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
military force; force of arms; strength of an army
preservation; retainment; keeping
behind; in the rear; in back
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
strategic withdrawal; strategic retreat
to be seen from the point of view of an onlooker
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
to take refuge in; to succeed in running away
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
until now; so far; up to the present
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
by all means; by all costs
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat
to call in; to invite; to bring in
proof; testimony; demonstration; verification; certification
serious; severe; grave; acute
too much; excessively; too
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
area on Japan Sea side of Japan, including Niigata
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)
small; narrow; familiar prefix; slightly; a bit
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
region on Japan Sea side of Japan west of Tokyo; Nagano and Niigata
light (e.g. aircraft, truck); light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); kei car
mountain stream; valley; dale; wetlands; swamp; marsh
abandoned railway line; closed railway line; discontinued line
go that far; to that extent
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
passage (of people, traffic); passing; common usage
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)