Vocabulary

personnel exchange; people-to-people exchange

crimes of abduction, confinement and bodily injury

false arrest and imprisonment; illegal arrest and confinement

false arrest and imprisonment; illegal arrest and confinement

illegal arrest and imprisonment resulting in death or bodily injury

to rape

to gaze out at; to look out over

loss; defeat

tear; rip; breach; break; hole; crack

roasted mochi

sweet paste of white beans and miso

sweet burdock and miso-bean paste covered with a thin layer of mochi

imagawayaki; thick pancake containing bean jam, served hot

snow on pine branches

honeycomb toffee; sponge toffee; foam candy from heated brown sugar mixed with baking soda

Carme (moon of Jupiter)

ice cream mixed with adzuki bean paste

green tea ice cream

fried oysters; deep-fried oysters

bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum); northern bilberry

black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)

spark plug

drawing; painting

cold and heat

alternating chills and fever

supplementation, causing bowel movements, heating, and cooling (four main treatments of traditional Chinese medicine)

caramel malt

polynya; area of open water surrounded by sea ice

pingo

Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida); polar cod

input of kana alone (i.e. without conversion into kanji); input in no-conversion-mode

to be clear-headed

to take a nap; to catch forty winks; to catch some Z's

to relax one's mind; to feel relaxed

level of awakeness; level of arousal

stimulant effect (e.g. caffeine)

to divide into groups

considering something taboo; treating something as taboo

to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak

to get sleep; to sleep