Vocabulary

passing university entrance exams in the last year of high school (instead of failing then taking gap year(s))

(suffering a) decisive defeat; rout; thrashing; losing big

prying tool used in interior decoration

temaribana; Japanese snowball (Viburnum plicatum)

central government agencies; central bureaucracy

crankshaft

notes; comments; annotations

submarine rocket; SUBROC

demarcation

demarcation

father

thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

Russian person

Easter egg

sailing boat; sailboat

Jew's mallow; Nalta jute; Tussa jute

humbly presenting something; reverently offering

mutual assured destruction; mutually assured destruction; MAD

small arms; light weapons

United Nations Security Council Resolution

nuclear-weapon state

non-nuclear-weapon state

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; NPT

unilateralism

multilateralism

rogue nation; rogue state

failed state

lifestyle

sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

kaki (Japanese persimmon) seed

mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

dinner and drinks served after a wake

Internet cafe; net cafe

Internet cafe; net cafe

slub yarn (yarn with lumps, thickening, etc.)

warm air heater

dirty old man; pervert; lecher

foreign exchange rate

social phobia; chronic shyness; social anxiety disorder; stage fright