Vocabulary

cook; chef

dwindling; declining; diminishing; tapering off

fortune; property

Shinto ritual

mental image; mental picture; image

gold ore; gold deposit

gold dust; silver dust

united; unified

illegal digging; illegal mining; grave robbing; tomb robbing

opening session

piling up; multiple layers

haniwa; hollow unglazed terracotta figure from the Kofun period

insertion; letter drop

pay gap; wage gap; wage differential

pinning technique (in wrestling or judo)

center of an explosion; centre of an explosion

leather boots; rubber boots; wellingtons; wellies; long boots; high boots

clincher; winning technique; official winning technique

being watchful; keeping watch; keeping an eye open

high interest rate

occupying forces (esp. of the Allies in Japan after World War II)

specimen; sample; object to be examined

antique; historical object

judicial scrivener; judicial clerk; person qualified to prepare legal documents, handle real-estate transactions, etc.

lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing

lying fallow; leaving a field uncultivated

witness; observer

to be breathtaking; to be stifling

how to manage (e.g. case); how to handle (e.g. machine); way with (e.g. children, animal)

replenishment; supplement; reparation

Port and Harbor Authority

deodorant; deodorizer; air freshener

(female) assistant nurse; practical nurse

taikō (esp. Toyotomi Hideyoshi); title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son

electronic calculator combined with a soroban

Hokkaido Legislative Assembly

modern version; modern edition; updated, contemporary edition

measuring instrument

local industry; traditional local industry

statelessness