Vocabulary

to grow up; to become adult; to start behaving like an adult

hadouken (fireball attack from the Street Fighter series)

Kibō no Tō (Japanese political party); Party of Hope

Party for Japanese Kokoro (Japanese political party founded by Shintarō Ishihara)

Japan Innovation Party; Nippon Ishin no Kai; JIP

group of independents; usu. informal grouping of independent politicians in the National Diet or in prefectural assemblies

bailer (boat)

Tet; Vietnamese New Year

bending; warping; flexibility; pliability

document containing instructions

straight news

additional information used to identify an address (e.g. building name, room number)

just-noticeable difference; JND

interpenetration of spirit between the poet and nature in a haiku

laminator; laminating machine

thanking another driver by flashing one's hazard lights

insurance salesman

fibroma

notice of resignation; (one's) resignation; resignation notice

subsidiary coin; subsidiary money

utensil made by hollowing out wood

one-mon coin

parapet; breastwork

selfie stick

selfie stick

selfie stick

flying hill (in ski jumping or ski flying); FH

hill size (in ski jumping); HS

hill size (in ski jumping); HS

small hill (in ski jumping); SH

medium hill (in ski jumping); MH

age of majority; age of adulthood

voting age

lifting a child high up in the air

original store; first store

Golden Lion (highest prize at the Venice Film Festival)

stone harvesting knife; stone knife

kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced

straight grain (wood)

coherence; order; focus; point