Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
rivers and mountains; landscape
tying up; restraint; restriction; arrest
to accompany; to follow; to assemble (necessary items); to prepare
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly
last month; previous month
change of government; regime change
Hamaguchi Osachi (1870.5.1-1931.8.26)
bribery scheme; acquisition maneuver
mass communication; mass media
honesty; integrity; purity and unselfishness
right-wing (politics); extreme right-wing group; right wing (bird, plane, etc.); right field; right flank; right fielder; high rank
to narrowly escape (e.g. death); to hang onto (life); (arch.) to ascertain; (arch.) to make definite
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
prime minister's official residence
praise and censure; public criticisms
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
(former) imperial university
economic world; financial circles; business community
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
pro-Japanese group; Japanophiles
Shenyang (China) (formerly Mukden)
control (by the state); controlling; coordination; air traffic control
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
Japanese citizen; Japanese citizens
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
Liaoning Province (China)
mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)
commander-in-chief; generalissimo
anarchy; state of anarchy
disappointing (end, result, etc.); sad; miserable; tragic; fleeting; transient
together with; same; both; all; including ...
Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang)
to strike; to attack; to punish
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
National Revolutionary Army (Republic of China; 1925-1947)
leaving the capital; leaving Tokyo