Vocabulary

photocopier; photocopying machine

patrol

twisted thread or yarn; twining of thread or yarn

Public Employment Security Office

lounge; common room

rock door (to a cave)

calculus; stone

circulation (of the blood)

outside (a region, area, etc.); out of range (of a mobile network, radar, etc.); outside the sphere (of influence, etc.); out of contention; out of reach

(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning

row of houses

ledger

atomic bomb; A-bomb

severe winter

string instrument; stringed instrument

reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence

salary reduction; salary cut

old castle; old fortress

proper noun

Go board

crossing; intersection

friendship; companionship; fraternity; comradeship

court noble; nobility; kuge

protest; refutation; pleading

revision; proofreading

strangling (to death); strangulation

ascetic; pilgrim; devotee

flavoring; flavouring; spices

black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853

reinsurance

sourness; acidity

branch; chapter

distributary; tributary; branched flow (river, current, etc.)

level

change of color; change of colour; fading; discoloration; discolouration

betrayal; defection; treachery; apostasy

transformer substation

compilation (esp. dictionary, history, law code); editing

shop; store

footbridge; pedestrian bridge; pedestrian overpass