Vocabulary

rough surface

trachyte

norm

Coandă effect

rugby union

rugby league

safety matches

feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless); the clenching teeth of a dried sardine

pop culture

Cool Japan (slogan)

cultural center; cultural centre

cultural tour package; culturally themed package tour

corporate culture

culture gap

safety culture

safety culture

aquaculture; aquiculture

extreme sports

eSports (form of competition using video games); e-sports; electronic sports

original character

Jacobian

Yuanshi Tianzun (one of the supreme divinities of Taoism)

qualifying tournament

qualification test

summit meeting; summit conference; top-level meeting

attacking midfielder (soccer)

scoop-getting freelance journalist

virtual desktop

acetazolamide

housecall (doctor, nurse); outcall (prostitute)

hadouken (fireball attack from the Street Fighter series)

Japan Innovation Party; Nippon Ishin no Kai; JIP

bailer (boat)

Tet; Vietnamese New Year

bending; warping; flexibility; pliability

document containing instructions

straight news

additional information used to identify an address (e.g. building name, room number)

just-noticeable difference; JND

interpenetration of spirit between the poet and nature in a haiku