Vocabulary

deciphering; decoding

pleasure

martial law

road; street; avenue

status elevation; upgrading; promotion

prey; catch; kill; game

cornea

(academic) degree

conical hat (East-Asian style); coolie hat

moving from one battlefield to another; fighting on successive fronts; fighting in various battles

symptomatic therapy; allopathy

next or adjoining room

girls' school

conclusion of a contract

increasing the number (of trains, planes, etc.) in operation

vacant house; unoccupied house

childhood diseases

tentative title

one's pupil; one's student; one's follower

sense of beauty; aesthetic sense

sewing (by machine)

image of (an ideal) person

suitable age

role; part; job; assignment

Primorskaya Oblast (Russia)

having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education); having completed no schooling beyond junior high school; middle school graduate

existence; subsistence

Japanese-language dictionary

conditions of a country

national character; regional character

sitting

civil society

losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover

private enterprise

Emperor's cup; trophy given by the Emperor

for private or home use

(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies

biological child; one's own child

social movement

demolition; pulling down; destruction; dismantling