jpdb beta

North China

1

colonel; (navy) captain

2

tearing; ripping; crunching; munching; stiff; starchy; (working) hard

2

to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)

1

merits; distinguished services

2

wartime

2

500; five hundred; many

1

execution

2

farmer; peasant

2

all people; everybody; ten thousand people

1

forced labor; forced labour; slave labor; slave labour

1

to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around

1

extent to which (something) is true or false; whether or not (something) is true

1

within the borders of a country; domestic soil; inland; interior; Japan proper (as opposed to its overseas colonies); homeland

8

to call back; to recall

1

war criminal; person responsible for a team's defeat

1

suspicion; charge

1

Far East

1

court-martial

1

probability; likelihood

1

to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous

1

general; shogun

1

field officer

1

class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.

1

to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul

1

to put to trial; to argue in court

1

pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

1

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

1

death by hanging; execution by hanging

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

1

rather than (do ...)

1

US armed forces

1

jeep

2

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

22

to hesitate; to waver

1

pistol

2

to shoot out (lights, window, etc.)

1

to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side

1

timewise; temporal; chronal

1

to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

2

to hang (e.g. oneself)

1

oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)

1

to lose one's way; to get lost

1

GI (soldier in the US Army); G.I.

1

to ask the way

1

area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances

1

hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible

2

one's last moments; (on) the point of death; (on) one's deathbed

1

actress; female actor

5

bachelorhood; spinsterhood; celibacy; living apart from one's family; living alone; person who lives alone

1