jpdb beta

harbour; harbor; port

1

importance; gravity

1

brickwork

2

dominion; territory; possession

5

cession (of territory)

3

to surround; to crowd around

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

capital city; metropolis

2

detached territory; enclave; exclave; scattered landholdings

3

ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

1

compromise; giving in

1

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

1

Danzig; Dantzig

1

corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)

1

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

1

firm; determined; resolute; conclusive

1

refusal; rejection; denial; veto

1

lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy

1

to launch oneself upon; to make one's debut

1

Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2

4

unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short

1

partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting

2

conquest; subjugation; overcoming

1

not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it

1

just like

2

government-general

1

location; address

1

to expose to danger; to imperil; to jeopardize

1

overall finish; mop-up

1

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

1

officers and men

1

in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

1

triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate

1

fourfold

1

careful; elaborate; scrupulous

3

signs; omen; symptoms

1

drawn sword; naked sword

1

role; part; duty

1

rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive

1

excavation; cutting; digging

1

to succeed; to bear fruit

1

heavyweight class

1

rampart; castle walls

14

present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

1

to tighten; to press hard

1

precarious situation; precarious state

1

putrid smell of a corpse

2

light; lamplight

1

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

2

prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum

1