Vocabulary

sugoroku; e-sugoroku; Japanese illustrated board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track

employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange

occupational hearing loss; occupational deafness

vocational school

trade association

craft union; horizontal union

primary auditory cortex

auditory center (of the brain); auditory centre

father confessor; confessor

audiometer; sonometer

Catholic rite (e.g. mass); hierurgy

Holy Saturday

otoscope; auriscope; auroscope

lug

earmuffs

auricle; pinna

earache; aural pain; ear pain; otalgia; otodynia

earmark (on cattle, etc.)

light brown

Sriracha sauce

collateral securities; substitute securities

collateral securities; substitute securities

wake

terminal care; end-of-life care

rationalization; justification

Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe during his second term as prime minister

spotbelly rockfish (Sebastes pachycephalus)

threestripe rockfish (Sebastes trivittatus)

disconformity; paralleled unconformity

China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China); civilized land and uncivilized land

crown

everywhere; all over the place

metastability

boron nitride

(telephone) mouthpiece

off-road motor vehicle

competitive karuta

intensive investment

capital-intensive industry

labor-intensive industry; labour-intensive industry