Vocabulary

bottom step; bottom stair; last line; last column; bottom row (e.g. drawers)

unify the nation by force; spread military force under the heavens

sugoroku; e-sugoroku; Japanese illustrated board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track

heavy; weighty

employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange

occupational hearing loss; occupational deafness

vocational school

trade association

craft union; horizontal union

primary auditory cortex

auditory center (of the brain); auditory centre

father confessor; confessor

audiometer; sonometer

Catholic rite (e.g. mass); hierurgy

Holy Saturday

otoscope; auriscope; auroscope

lug

earmuffs

auricle; pinna

earache; aural pain; ear pain; otalgia; otodynia

earmark (on cattle, etc.)

light brown

Sriracha sauce

to lessen; to decrease; to diminish

to stagger; to stumble; to totter

collateral securities; substitute securities

collateral securities; substitute securities

wake

terminal care; end-of-life care

to make a mistake

to make a mistake; to commit an error; to commit a fault

to be able to eat

rationalization; justification

be; is

Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe during his second term as prime minister

spotbelly rockfish (Sebastes pachycephalus)

threestripe rockfish (Sebastes trivittatus)

disconformity; paralleled unconformity

baseless; groundless; unfounded; without evidence

China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China); civilized land and uncivilized land