bag; satchel; briefcase; basket
courteous; decorous; polite
twice; again; second time
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Special Branch (police); Ministry of Public Security (China)
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing
postwar period; period after Second World War
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
forevermore; for eternity
secrecy; highly classified information
successive generations; successive emperors
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official
political organization; political organisation
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
many; numerous; various; large number of
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
need for caution; need for care; requiring special attention
political and business circles; political and business establishment; politics and industry
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
tangent point; point of contact; contact (electrical, etc.); point of agreement; common ground
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
reason; cause; circumstances
unprepared; careless; imprudent; indiscreet
ordinary people; general public; public at large
eyes and ears; seeing and hearing; one's attention; one's interest
government body; government agency
authority; power; influence
abasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness
ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay
throughput; processing power