gatha (poetic verse of a scripture)
praise; hymn (genre of the Shi Jing)
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin
to weave into; to interweave; to be incorporated in; to be factored in
episode; side story; story within a story; aside; anecdote
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
to do one's best; to put forth every effort
to help out of (trouble); to extricate
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
unfaithfulness; infidelity; unchastity
Battle of Midway (June 1942)
(former) Imperial Japanese Navy
very great; enormous; serious
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
industrialized nation; industrialised nation
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
mainland China; China proper
declaration of war; proclamation of war
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
atoll; circular coral reef
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky