Vocabulary

most-read newspaper (in a region)

graveyard; burial ground; cemetery

paleopathology

fishing net; fishing net accessories

edge effect

lineage; pedigree; ancestry

sending logs downstream bound together in rafts; floating bound timber downstream; timber rafting

upcycling; creative reuse

crisis awareness; sense of impending crisis

integumentary system

chōfu-maki (traditional Japanese sweet)

ban-sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon

ban-sugoroku board (usu. wooden); sugoroku board

digital nomad; location-independent (digital) worker

location-independent (digital) work

working as a digital nomad; working independent of location

Kentucky Fried Chicken; KFC

adiposis; lipidosis; steatosis

obesity; excess of fat

meeting of the stars Vega and Altair (on the night of Tanabata); meeting of the two love stars

round shield; buckler

blown-off roof Yamato-e painting technique; depiction of a building without its roof to show the interior

chief of the general staff; chief of staff (esp. US)

high tone

philately

philatelist; stamp collector

philatelist

activity-based costing; ABC

peremptory command; must-obey order; absolute instruction

(baton) exchange zone (in a relay race); takeover zone

friend code (number used to identify a user on Nintendo consoles)

library card

library card

book that cannot be taken out (of a library, etc.); restricted book; reference-only book

epidemiological investigation; epidemiological survey

pussy

secular state; secular nation

non-crystalline solid; amorphous solid

Korean (person)

polycrystal