Yamagata Aritomo (1838.6.14-1922.2.1)
children; sons; (lit.) children and younger brothers; young people
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
green tract of land; green space
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
failure; mistake; blunder
to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress
production; output; turning out
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
Nitobe Inazou (1862-1933)
plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
increase in population; population growth
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
serious; severe; grave; acute
agricultural administration
agricultural land; farmland
very much; very many; more and more
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus
respect and affection; love and respect
unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable
spring staple shortage (before the harvest of rice, wheat, barley, etc.)