Vocabulary

Automated Data Editing and Switching System; ADESS; computer system operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency for collecting, processing and distributing global weather data

Numerical Analysis and Prediction System; NAPS

net national welfare

player-manager; playing manager; player-coach; playing coach

player piano; pianola

player piano

Yalta Conference (February 1945)

Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan; February 11, 1945)

oxidation number

graded on N steps; scored out of N

bitumen

sub-; second-rate; inferior

mid-ocean sandbank

porosity

shirasu; white pumiceous soil of southern Kyushu

America (land mass); the Americas

misogyny; discrimination against women; sexism

to carve; to engrave

basketball

to kidnap; to abduct

children born of multiple birth (e.g. twins, triplets, etc.)

hickey (printing defect)

experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught

-ist; -er

hello

's house; 's home

gardening

counter used with Sino-Japanese words

general-purpose counter

a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)

long desk; long table

counter for years

twenty years

500; five hundred

700; seven hundred

900; nine hundred

8000; eight thousand

80000

many

800,000; eight hundred thousand