fleet (fishing, naval, etc.); convoy; group of ships
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
colony; (Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)
rule; reign; government; governing
older sister; elder sister
governor-general; governor; viceroy
support; backing; endorsement; support; holding up; propping
to take part in; to be a party to; to side with; to support; to agree with
military of the Empire of Japan
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
human resources; man-power resources
accomplishment; execution
control of the sea; command of the sea
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
state-of-the-art; cutting-edge
retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to cut in (printing)
in name only; titular; nominal
to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
front; frontage; facade; main
to allot; to allocate; to supply with; to furnish; to fit to; to fasten to
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
(exercising) the right to command
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
northern part; the north (of a region)
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
replenishment; supplementation; supplement; replacement; refilling
pole; climax; extreme; extremity