to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
overseas student; exchange student
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
follow-up (tracing) survey
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)
deep in the mountains; mountain recesses
mental derangement; mental confusion; alienation
Xinhai Revolution (of China; 1911)
mid-air breakage or disintegration
rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field
half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)
to speak ill of; to disparage
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
sorrow; grief; anguish; trouble; affliction; anxiety
pro-Japanese group; Japanophiles
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
oppression; suppression; pressure
supporter (e.g. of the arts); adherent; proponent
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
preference; priority; precedence
fierce (fight, competition, etc.); severe; hot; hard; bitter; keen
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
military assistance advisory group
originally; by nature; from the start
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago