Vocabulary

golf cart; golf car; golf buggy

golf ball

lyre

surcoat

third base

serval (Leptailurus serval)

therm

thermography

reminder

keeping accounts; balancing accounts

yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)

yusho (disease caused by PCB ingestion)

waza-ari (in judo, a half-point awarded for good but incomplete execution)

ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards)

shime-waza (judo stranglehold)

sutemi-waza (judo sacrifice throw)

private diary; pillow book

prostitute (esp. one consorting with occupation soldiers after WWII); pan-pan girl

protoanemonin

cosplay

ferret

functional food

health-promoting food

Japlish (Japanese English)

platform (e.g. of a party); policy statement; manifesto

earthquake simulator

nashiji; lacquering technique using gold or silver powder or flakes

rotenone

Japanese skimmia (Skimmia japonica, esp. S. j. var. japonica)

habitual criminal; recidivist

conventional means; usual means

fatty oil

(letterpress) printing house

thick glasses; bottle bottom glasses

death cap (Amanita phalloides); death cup

tortoise shell bondage; turtle shell bondage

chaos theory

strange attractor

Lorenz attractor

fractal theory