Nihonjin Dake ga Shiranai Sekai kara Zessan Sareru Nihonjin – Vocabulary list

永なが野の修おさ身み

Nagano Osami (1880-1947)

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追おいつめる

to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after

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発はつ言げん

statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal

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因いん縁ねん

fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification

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集しゅう約やく

intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together

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表ひょう現げん

expression; presentation; representation; notation

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何なにかと

one way or another; in many ways; in various ways

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葉は

leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle

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見み付つける

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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難なん局きょく

difficult situation

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受うけて立たつ

to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet

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計けい算さんずく

calculated; premeditated; considered

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勝しょう負ぶ

victory or defeat; match; contest; game

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兵へい法ほう

art of war; strategy; tactics

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大和やまと魂だましい

the Japanese spirit

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根こん本ぽん的てき

fundamental; basic

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特とく別べつ攻こう撃げき隊たい

special attack unit; suicide squad; kamikaze unit

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通つう称しょう

popular name; common name; nickname; alias

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軍ぐん国こく

nation at war; militant nation

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洗せん脳のう

brainwashing

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ずらい

difficult to ...; hard to ...

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死しに

dying; death; dead; useless; damned

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本ほん当とう

truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic

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生うみ

birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world

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海かい軍ぐん中ちゅう将じょう

vice-admiral

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大おお西にし瀧たき治じ郎ろう

Oonishi Takijirou (1891.6.2-1945.8.16)

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実じっ行こう者しゃ

performer

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猪い口ぐち

bolete

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力りき平へい

Rikihei

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中なか島じま

island in a pond or river

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回かい天てん

changing the world; turning the tide; torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

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不ふ適てき

inadequacy; inappropriateness; unfitness; impropriety

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志し願がん

aspiration; volunteering; desire; application

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草くさ柳やなぎ大だい蔵ぞう

Kusayanagi Daizou (1924.10-)

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文ぶん春しゅん文ぶん庫こ

Bunshun Bunko (paperback label)

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西せい

Spain; Spanish (language)

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場ば面めん

scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market

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挽ばん回かい

recovery; restoration

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質しつ問もん

question; inquiry; enquiry

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口く調ちょう

tone (of voice); manner of talking

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白びゃっ虎こ

White Tiger (god said to rule over the western heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens

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ではないか

isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...

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瀬せ戸と際ぎわ

brink; critical moment

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かも

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

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しれる

to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

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それなら

if that's the case ...; if so ...; that being the case ...

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なおさら

still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less

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まあ

just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...

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起たつ

to rise up; to initiate (political) action

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殉じゅんじる

to sacrifice oneself; to die a martyr

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Vocabulary list: Nihonjin Dake ga Shiranai Sekai kara Zessan Sareru Nihonjin