Vocabulary

sagohachi-zuke; vegetables, seafood, or mushrooms pickled in a sagohachi base, local dish of Fukushima, Yamagata, and Akita prefectures

decision-making ability; decisiveness

lack of finishing power (e.g. in sports); being unable to score

both cheeks

preannounced murder; murder with prior warning

summer festival (esp. an outdoor musical festival)

(being so overjoyed that) one cannot help but dance; unable to contain one's excitement; jumping for joy

rather eccentric; more than a little unconventional; quite out of the ordinary

very eccentric; thoroughly unconventional; quite out of the ordinary

bending; twisting; winding

early edition (of a newspaper); first print run (of a given day's issue)

model maker; prototype sculptor; figure sculptor; master modeler

bounty hunter

manager's office (e.g. of an apartment building); caretaker's room

sports equipment

object held in the hand of a Buddhist image; attribute of a deity

campsite food; food cooked and eaten while camping; camp cooking

gnashingly (e.g. gritting one's teeth); with a grinding sound; with a creak

with a clank

Somogyi effect; rebound hyperglycemia

Mikawa dialect (spoken in the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture, former Mikawa Province)

with a thud; thump

with a heavy clank

flurried; flustered; upset; nervous; embarrassed

(burying a body) in concrete; filled with concrete

kitchen scissors; cooking shears

screamo (genre)

pond fish

to pull down (clothing, etc.); to slide down

boar taint; male animal odor

musky female scent; female body odor

Guinness record-level; world-record-class

woman used as a sexual object; female human toilet

indescribable; exquisite; inexpressible; indefinable

extremely muscular person; muscle-bound person

Edo-period atmosphere; old Edo charm; nostalgic ambiance of old Tokyo

emergency clinic; emergency medical care center

business manager; person in charge; administrative contact

nice to meet you; pleased to make your acquaintance

medical administrative work; medical clerical work