to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on
earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
loans for low-income people
common people; ordinary people; masses
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
money-making; earning money
ordinary people; general public; public at large
honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest
other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for
set; company; companions; fellows
high; noble; refined; advanced
extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
gap; difference; disparity; discrepancy
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
switching over to; migration; transition
to be of use as a reference; to be helpful
power relations; balance of power (between)
half the amount (of money); half price; half fare
each prefecture; all prefectures
to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
Saitama prefecture (Kanto area)
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War; portrait or photo of a person of high rank
school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)