battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
to load (with goods, cargo); to put on board; to stow aboard
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
three; three years of age
good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity
price increase; rise in price
being reluctant to sell; holding off on selling
consequence; outcome; result; blame
another prefecture; other prefectures
Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)
Aomori (city, prefecture)
prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo)
undulation; winding; meandering; swell (of waves); surge; billow
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
screening (a movie); showing; to screen a movie
to take another good look at; to reconsider; to analyze; to reexamine
Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
overall victory; championship
Japan's National High School Baseball Tournament (Koshien)
gust (of wind); blast; influence; impact; instigation; agitation
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
branch office; police box; local police station
municipal railway; city streetcar; tram
desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires
resentment; indignation; anger
to be a background factor; to be an underlying reason
clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit