Vocabulary

the three major labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, and labor relations adjustment law)

labor relations adjustment law (labour)

Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)

birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

Japanese white birch oil

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox)

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)

Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)

clove cherry (Prunus apetala)

sandbank in a river

ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry

Japanese box tree (Buxus microphylla var. japonica)

storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata); mandarin melon berry; silkworm thorn; cudrang

Chinese mulberry (Morus bombycis)

ebony

ebony

cheese sandwich

soot-colored bamboo (coloured)

Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)

any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry

any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry

Fuji cherry (Prunus incisa)

Fuji cherry (Prunus incisa)

Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)

Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)

colored bead (coloured); colored ball

moonflower (Ipomoea alba)

make good use of; make the most of

moonflower (Ipomoea alba)

one spoon

stone knife (Jomon-period tool, shaped like a rice spoon)

stone knife (Jomon-period tool, shaped like a rice spoon)

rice spoon

rice scoop

fugu poison

multipurpose; multiuse

to exchange greetings