nanshin, Imperial Japan's policy of southern expansionism towards southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

advancement southward

to advance southward

Contraction of 南アフリカ (Minami Afurika, “South Africa (a country)”).

inoffensive; safe; free from trouble / faultless; tolerable; passable

(medicine) hearing loss, deafness; partial or total inability to hear

difficulty, hindrance / affliction, hardship

bogged down, hindered

to meet with difficulty / to be troubled / to suffer from

incurable disease; obstinate sickness