mother tongue; native language; protolanguage; parent language
enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening one's eyes to the truth; gaining eyesight; restoring eyesight; opening the eyes
general idea; concept; notion
tool (esp. software, etc.); tour (e.g. Tour de France)
level; standard; water level
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
Beijing dialect (of Mandarin); Pekingese
(starting) from nothing; from scratch
generation; the world; the age
absorption; suction; attraction
to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss
Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
acceleration; speeding up
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum
suppression; repression; subjugation
you could say; you might say; verging on the
suicide attack; kamikaze attack
unimpressive; unimpressed
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze
special attack unit; kamikaze unit; suicide squad
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
to be playful; to gambol; to be amused (with something); to flirt with
inevitable; necessary; foregone; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
body and soul; mind and body
defense of one's country; defence of one's country
to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)
defend and maintain; support; protection
comeback; recovery; restoration; rally; reflexive (in grammar)
Japan and the United States; Japanese-American