Vocabulary

Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)

Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)

unemployment benefit

paper feed (of a printer, photocopier, etc.); paper feeding

paper feeder

"professional name" used by hostesses and geisha

categorizing

board game

Greek (person)

secret place

thief (particularly in RPG games)

bard (esp. as a character class in role-playing games)

expression method; how to express oneself; phrasing

to wind around

explicit knowledge

tacit knowledge

small waist fetish; wasp waist fetish

parallel marker; particle used to list items (e.g. "to", "ya", "yara")

parallel marker; particle used to list items (e.g. "to", "ya", "yara")

secondary substantive (inflectable word or phrase that acts as an uninflectable within a sentence)

reflexive verb

finite verb

ergative verb

non-finite verb

modal auxiliary verb

main verb

concrete noun

formal noun; dummy noun; expletive noun

Nansei Islands; Ryukyu Islands; chain of islands extending from southwestern Kyushu to northern Taiwan

lame duck

battle robot; war robot

exclusive distributorship agreement; sole sales contract

exclusive-distributorship; exclusive selling right

sole agency authority

general tariff

public liability

general preferential duties; general preferential taxes

general agreement

memorandum of agreement on general trade terms and conditions