Vocabulary

multiple people

white T-shirt

honorary degree

naturalized citizen; naturalised citizen

Reiwa period (2019-)

(feeling of) satisfaction (with an explanation, decision, arrangement, etc.); understanding (e.g. of the public); acceptance; agreement

quack remedy; (medical) quackery

mass-produced product; mass-market article

sexology

puppet state

misophonia

job satisfaction; quality of work life; reason to work

stellar astronomy

goulash

poison fire coral (Podostroma cornu-damae)

(rolling) a 1 and a 6 (with two dice)

April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)

tiding over a difficult situation; stopgap; quick fix

finality; purposiveness

Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month)

telling a patient how long they have left to live; giving a diagnosis of terminal illness

big spender

healthy soldier

mixed-race heritage; mixed heritage

academic forum

first wintry wind in fall

international strait

diced, pickled daikon (eaten as an accompaniment to fried chicken)

Red Flag Incident (suppression and arrest of participants of anarcho-communist rally in Tokyo; June 22, 1908)

balanced contraction; diminishing equilibrium; reductive balance

misremembering; remembering incorrectly; mistaken memory

bread (sandwich, etc.) for breakfast

folding umbrella

safety breaker

molded-case circuit breaker; MCCB

earthquake detection

seismic breaker; earthquake-sensitive circuit breaker

improvement work (construction); betterment

lure; artificial bait

the '70s; the seventies