Vocabulary

fishing zone; fishery waters

cheek rouge; blusher; blush

five-second rule (food hygiene myth)

water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout

facial cleanser

equality

Parnassius stubbendorfii (species of swallowtail)

black-veined white (species of butterfly, Aporia crataegi)

water scavenger beetles (Hydrophilidae family)

submerged plant; submerged vegetation

the 2010s

policeman; police

full to capacity; full to bursting; house full; sellout

single-parent family; one-parent family; single-parent household

single parent; one parent

"Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front

soil moisture; soil water

home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth)

cross-fertilization; allogamy

cross-pollination

cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.

polyacid

hinona (Japanese variety of long-rooted pickling turnip, Brassica rapa var. akana)

impregnable

gushing forth (e.g. of oil); spouting; natural emergence (of a hot spring)

longevity celebration; old age anniversary

Japanese style restaurant; Japanese style dining hall

diaphoremeter; sweat sensor; sweating rate meter

Toda people

freezer burn; freezerburn

dendrite

dendrite

atmospheric optical phenomenon

circumzenithal arc; cicumzenith arc

airglow; nightglow

green flash (optical phenomenon occurring shortly after sunset or before sunrise)

green flash (optical phenomenon occurring shortly after sunset or before sunrise)

alpenglow; alpine glow

atmospheric refraction; astronomical refraction

reflection rainbow