Vocabulary

red banana; red Dacca banana

Alfven wave; Alfvén wave; type of magnetohydrodynamic wave

astronomical clock

Ekman current

purchasing power parity theory; PPP theory

geopolitics

surströmming (Swedish dish of fermented herring)

proportion of forested land; proportion of land which is forested

dermatoglyphic pattern; dermatoglyphics

Japan-Switzerland

Heine-Medin disease; poliomyelitis; polio

panspermia hypothesis

floorball; unihockey

kefir (fermented milk drink)

futhark; runic alphabet

alvar; biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil

harassment, discrimination, bullying, etc. of staff and students at educational institutions

harassment, discrimination, bullying, etc. of staff and students at educational institutions

harassment or bullying based on age

harassment (esp. in workplace); bullying; discrimination

racial harassment

early morning

plain woman

Comic Market (semiannual self-published comic book convention); comiket

family lawyer; personal lawyer

claw crane; arcade game in which a crane is used to pick up stuffed toys, etc.

claw crane; toy crane; crane game; arcade game where the player captures stuffed animals, etc. with a UFO-like crane

arcade game where one can win a prize

baby talk; baby language; babbling

filled pause (e.g. um, er); filler word

provincial dialect; rural dialect

language game in which extra syllables are added to words

language game in which extra syllables are added to words

word mainly used in tanka; poetical word

word mainly used in tanka; poetical word

euphemisms used by superstitious sailors (e.g. calling sardines "sundries", whales "Ebisu", etc.)

word consisting of (two) repeated syllables

password

secret language; argot

Chinese; Korean; foreign language; language one doesn't understand