Vocabulary

(surface of) field; plain

hidden agenda

collateral; security

official name of a country

diminutive

go for it; keep at it

obelisk

contraceptive device; birth-control device

San'in region; region of western Honshu incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures

San'yō region; region of western Honshu incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures

Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

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)

having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; helpless; powerless

unemployment benefit

roughly; approximately; coarsely; loosely

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)

with a bang

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