Vocabulary

voluntary activity; voluntary service; labor of love

putting on weight from the good (married) life

body motion

symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

irregular conjugation; irregular verb

regular conjugation (declension, inflection)

k-stem irregular verb conjugation ("ku(ru)" is the only member)

s-stem irregular verb conjugation ("su(ru)" is the only member)

n-stem irregular verb conjugation (in classical Japanese)

r-stem irregular conjugation (in classical Japanese); r-irregular conjugation

ichidan verb conjugation

conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "iru"

conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"

godan verb conjugation

conjugation of nidan verbs

conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "i" or "u" for every conjugation)

conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)

s-stem irregular verb conjugation ("su(ru)" is the only member)

r-stem irregular conjugation (in classical Japanese); r-irregular conjugation

n-stem irregular verb conjugation (in classical Japanese)

k-stem irregular verb conjugation ("ku(ru)" is the only member)

giant's kettle; giant's cauldron; pothole

sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)

carbon tax

baobab (Adansonia spp.); monkey-bread tree

indri (short-tailed lemur) (Indri indri)

final third of a two-hour period

middle third of a two-hour period

pro-verb (e.g. "do")

male virgin

noh theater performed at night by a fire

wetland; marshland

Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)

karst (geologic formation of irregular limestone deposits)

white-coloured skin

regulator

tomato juice

talcum powder

flour

concert master