physician's license (licence); doctor's license; medical license; license to practice medicine
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to shake; to tremble; to sway; to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate
favour; favor; obligation; kindness; benevolence
to act as a mediator; to serve as a mediator; to act as an intermediary; to be a go-between
pleading; entreaty; supplication; petition
passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching
just one person; only one
firmly rooted; deep-seated
nationalism; extreme patriotism
to persuade; to urge; to coax; to make advances (to); to seduce; to court
to open up to someone else; to divulge one's true feelings; to be openhearted
turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation; being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)
pardon; forgiveness; exemption; permission
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity
dejected; dispirited; crestfallen; discouraged
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
perspiration given off during sleep; sweating while sleeping; night sweats
disease affecting an entire nation
sons and daughters; children; girl
to take someone's life; to kill someone
Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2
change of heart; change of mind; change in love interest; (arch.) mental derangement; (arch.) madness; (arch.) insanity
how much; how many; to what extent; oh my god; how; what the
quick; rapid; swift; satisfactory
cavity; hollow; cave; hollow
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful