Vocabulary

bubble tea; pearl milk tea; boba milk tea; tapioca tea

grief care

grief

serial killer

snap election; snap general election

stage elevator; trapdoor

sake meter value; SMV

langur

earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)

lone monkey; stray monkey

Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra); crested black macaque; Sulawesi crested macaque; black ape

gibbon

clay monkey figure

loris

proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkey

loris (esp. a slow loris)

snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp., esp. the golden snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus roxellana)

snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp.)

Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis); Formosan rock monkey; Taiwanese macaque

golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)

secondary disaster

ping-pong diplomacy

hostile act

independent production (e.g. of a film)

distilled alcohol (esp. that used in some sakes and liqueurs); brewer's alcohol; jōzō alcohol

Bell's palsy

long TV show (lasting several hours)

related key

submediant

concertante

cupola furnace; cupola

wooden watchtower; battlefield watchtower

curt response; indifferent response; chilly reception; (giving someone the) cold shoulder; unenthusiastic interaction (e.g. from a company to a customer, or a celebrity to a fan)

iron mask (worn by samurai)

Anadara kagoshimensis (species of ark clam)

cheek pouch (monkey, squirrel, etc.)

backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

ape hand (deformity); simian hand

ape mask

damages inflicted by monkeys (on crops, etc.)