Vocabulary

functional beauty; beauty of function; simplicity and elegance of design

chrysanthemum-shaped metal fixture

striped fabric imported from Java (often cotton, sometimes mixed with silk)

letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

Jakarta

star attraction; draw card; crowd puller

star attraction; draw card; crowd puller

Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack

anti-nuisance ordinance; ordinance against disturbing the peace

sake brewed without addition of saccharides and no more than 120 litres of seed alcohol per tonne

situation; sitch

raw oil; unrefined vegetable oil (e.g. palm oil, pine oil)

in-flight service; onboard service

security police; peace preservation police

divorce

swimming ability certification

waterpower; running water

Minister of State for Special Missions

first shrine visit of the New Year

meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master

something that will last a lifetime (esp. high quality product)

dinner theater; dinner and a show

rave reviews; extremely high praise

taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture

waving a stick

short joke; quick one-liner; one-shot joke

short joke; quick one-liner

high spec

light user

graphics

character design

character design

chicken; chicken game; chicken race

home-made

tablet controller; tablet game pad; tablet gaming controller

many ways; various methods

Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea); green tree frog; White's tree frog; dumpy tree frog

poison dart frog (Dendrobatidae spp.); dart-poison frog

person who has reached nirvana, enlightenment, etc.

kickboard; flutterboard; float