Vocabulary

one's business

rabbi

Talmud

natto bacteria (Bacillus subtilis var. natto)

pseudoscience

spherical roller bearing

state police; provincial police

coroner

advertising department; public relations department; PR department

esoteric writings; Upanishad (sacred Hindu treatises)

Upanishad (sacred Hindu treatises)

Dianetics

dharma seat (seat from which one gives Buddhist sermons)

Theravada Buddhism

Southern Buddhism (as practised in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia)

Northern Buddhism (as practiced in East Asia)

on-the-sea ballot (votes cast in a federal election by ships' crewmen and sent by fax)

voter registration list; electoral register

permanent voter registration list

person appointed by an electoral nominee to be in charge of their campaign-fund accounting

(electoral) campaign manager

system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime

electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district; multi-member constituent electoral system

(Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district

proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained

proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

finishing kindergarten; graduating from kindergarten

kindergarten graduation ceremony

enka singer; singer of Japanese traditional ballads

parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

otaku; geek; nerd; enthusiast

absentee investor (e.g. in real estate)

Gilbert's syndrome; GS

carotenoid; carotinoid

kaross (cloak made of animal skin)

encephalitis lethargica

importing country

failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

teacup