Vocabulary

rocks glass; Old Fashioned glass; lowball glass

Spartan; spartan; harsh; rigid; severe; strict

hard to control; unmanageable

(possibly) defective item; as-is item; item sold as-is

downstairs neighbour (neighbor)

raisin bread

deep-fried horse mackerel

black soybean

macaroni salad

abstract side of things (such as personnel, skill, information; as opposed to physical things)

tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side)

dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder)

thinly shredded cabbage

thinly shredded cabbage

chicken stew with taro, carrot, burdock, etc.

coffee jelly; coffee jello; gelled sweetened coffee dessert

fruit jelly (gelled with konjac starch); fruit jello

fried fish cake

young woman who uses the usually male first person pronoun "boku"

young woman who uses the first person pronoun "ore"

big data

outdoor unit (esp. air conditioner condenser)

god-like existence; person far higher (in hierarchy, etc.) than oneself

PM 2.5; particulate matter 2.5; particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers

oh; ah

solitary non-employed person; non-employed person aged 20-59, not married or engaged in study who has no social interactions with anybody outside their family

dark tourism; black tourism; grief tourism

locally produced electricity

cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made

girl who has low self esteem

specially designated secret

carrying out an election campaign using the Internet

carrying out an election campaign using the Internet

decomposed granite

underscore; underbar

young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation and drives a car (unlike those who move to a larger city and commute by train); semi-delinquent suburbanite

city at risk of disappearing (because of decreasing population)

to take precautions; to set a guard against attack

feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

work after retirement age; work to supplement an insufficient pension