water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
Saipan (island near Guam)
honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
the Third Reich; Nazi Germany
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
supreme ruler; generalissimo; president (of Taiwan); führer; fuehrer
self-determination; suicide
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
100,000; hundred thousand
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
special attack unit; suicide squad; kamikaze unit
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze
composition; formation; organization; organisation; compilation
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
changing the world; turning the tide; torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)
whole nation; whole land; whole country
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
ordinary citizen; the general public
(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
Nagasaki (city, prefecture)
throwing down; dropping; airdrop; investment
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
righteous government; just rule; easy method; simple approach; orthodox way; proper way