foreshadowing; preparation; precautionary measures
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
intelligence or information network
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
(private) secretary; treasured book; secret book
court lady; lady-in-waiting
newspaper story (article, account)
organization; organisation; forming
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
public opinion; popular voice; public sentiment; consensus
to send to; to deliver; to escort (a person) home
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
breakthrough (research, etc.); breach; opening
cannot be compared with; no match for
equal; equivalent; equals sign; equality sign; equals (as in "A equals B")
to reason; to sum up; to conclude
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
cheerfully; buoyantly; happily; in high spirits
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
restlessly; nervously; uneasily; in a fidget
roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)
information bureau; intelligence department
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
intelligence agency; secret service
independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
making use of; application; practical use; operation; handling; steering (esp. a boat)
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
dawning (of a new era); dawn