Vocabulary

waste of money

shop; store; merchant; shopkeeper

electrical appliance store

pig iron making; pig iron manufacturing

sleazebag; asshole; shithead; lowlife

ogling; eyeing (lecherously); leering; staring

falling weight; drop-weight (e.g. test, impact strength)

foreign citizenship; foreign nationality

ratio decidendi; reason for a verdict

tracking number (e.g. for orders); tracking number

isobutane

to be; to exist

be; is

member of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly

member of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly

Hokkaido Legislative Assembly

member of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly

Winter Olympics; Winter Olympic Games

Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly elections

being re-elected (multiple times)

first page of a renga or renku

being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time

gubernatorial election; election of governor; gubernatorial campaign; gubernatorial race

restraint of trade; trade restriction

leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement

managing editor; chief editor

profiling

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

dully; dispassionately; apathetically; in a subdued manner

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)