jpdb beta

flight; rout; debacle

1

open sea; Okinawa

1

standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert

1

warship; battleship

1

bombarding; shelling; bombardment

2

navy

1

state-of-the-art; cutting-edge

1

long, narrow house (e.g. traditional Kyoto townhouse); (lit.) eel bed

1

narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining

8

good idea

1

to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

2

Yoshinobu

1

to see the light of day; to be revealed (to the world); to be realized

1

execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment

3

Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)

2

symmetrical

1

right (to do something); authority; power

1

to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip

1

gravesite; tomb

3

to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)

1

treasure

2

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

3

castle

2

secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent

2

opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows

4

to fit; to suit

1

region on Japan Sea side of Japan west of Tokyo; Nagano and Niigata

1

well

2

side road; shortcut

1

derailment; digression; deviation

1

to arouse someone's interest; to whet (appetite); to be appealing; to be intriguing; to be fascinating

1

defeat; lost battle; losing a war

2

military of the Empire of Japan

3

mainland decisive battle (land battle envisioned late in World War II)

1

Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)

2

inland districts; inland areas

1

substitution; material; price; margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (arch.) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)

3

to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)

5

Nagano (city, prefecture)

1

decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

3

island in a pond or river

1

historical event; ancient event; tradition; folklore; legend

1

fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing

1

to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)

4

mainland; the country proper; native country; country where one was born; pure land; Buddha realm

1

U.S. forces; American military

1

Kujuukurihama

1

Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)

1

landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land

1

Kantouheiya

1