Vocabulary

clitoral hood; prepuce of clitoris

depressing something and turning it while still depressed (i.e. gas stopper, spark plug)

use of the continuative form as a conjunction (in Japanese)

continuative form when used as a conjunction

archaea; archaebacteria

bacteria; eubacteria

work clothes; fatigues

front light; front lighting

construction worker's baggy trousers

eight-tenths

type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

skin diving; free diving

feeling one gets from listening to something

electric current sintering

fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)

Tet Offensive (North Vietnamese offensive launched in January 1968)

fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors)

restaurant inside a department store

direct style

series of holidays with one or two workdays in between

Nature (journal)

fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)

beaten egg; eggwash

screen name; username; handle

strength training; resistance training; muscle-building

Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production; 1958-1960)

bowline (knot)

kai-awase; Heian-period shell-matching game

utagaruta; traditional matching game played with cards with stanzas of waka written on them

three-card monte (game)

official name

congratulatory postcards with a spring pattern sold every year in February

summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June

postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

recyclable garbage; recyclable waste

Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)

Vietcong; Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)

wrap-around (i.e. sunglasses)