home area; home town; local
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
noisily; with loud footsteps; in a crowd; incessantly; all together
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)
new government; new administration
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
government; administration
centralized authoritarian rule; centralised authoritarian rule
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
postwar period; period after Second World War
isolated place; out-of-the-way place; remote part of the land
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
Shounen Jump (weekly magazine)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with