to devour greedily; to wolf down; to gobble up
calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something
to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to turn over; to flip over; to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch
piece of paper; paper scrap; paper strip
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
dying in vain; useless death; meaningless death
joint action; acting in unison
each party; each faction; all sects
signature; signing; sealing
labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
labour union; labor union
24 hours; twenty-four hours
determination; conviction
regrettable; unsatisfactory; deplorable; lamentable
observance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance
Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996)
advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde (e.g. music)
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
steamroller voting; steamrollering
do-or-die resistance; resistance to the bitter end
unity; union; solidarity; combination; teaming up
the old left (school of thought)
ordinary people; general public; public at large
nothing but; none other than
reconfirmation; double check
hooting; jeering; heckling
great burdock (Arctium lappa); gobo
to pass; to overtake; to leave behind; to pull out; to extract; to remove
to agree on the principle; to firmly establish a policy
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
offense and defense; offence and defence