Vocabulary

resident audit request to local government authority

daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge

financial adjustment monies; public finance adjustment reserve funds stipulated in the Local Finance Act

bank book

trivial; not amounting to much

all-electric (e.g. heating)

surprising; shocking; jaw-dropping

surprising; shocking; jaw-dropping

flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness

suspicious person

immigration officer; immigration inspector

disembarkation card

anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

racketeering newspaper; journal that demands money in return for favourable articles

non-denominational; churchless

integration (e.g. social); mixing; penetration

points of improvement; improved areas

to think too much; to be over-concerned

overthinking

guardian dragon

sacred beast

(email) inbox

roundabout; traffic circle; rotary

selvage (traditional method of denim weaving)

if you have a mind to do something, you can do it

history of diplomacy; history of foreign policy

crazy; disturbed; mad

to go crazy; to go off one's head

footer (on a page, document, etc.)

type of poisonous cockroach bait

detective team

world map

life in a foreign country; living abroad

black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus); hooded gull

laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)

university system

new system

free person; free spirit

the free world (historically as opposed to the Communist bloc)