Vocabulary

Yu-Mail; Japan Post domestic small parcel delivery service

secondhand embarrassment; vicarious embarrassment; third-party embarrassment

front view; observation car view

developmental irregularities; developmental disorder; neurodiversity

stair

Pacific seaboard

cabinet standing committee; House Committee on the Cabinet

Asian hornet (Vespa velutina); Asian predatory wasp

bare buttocks

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

nobori; long, narrow banner attached to a pole on one side and a horizontal rod along the top

mechanical pulp; pulp made by mechanical means

Secondhand Articles Business Act

electronic data processing; EDP

chemical pulp

personal notes (on a text, etc.); one's annotation

mass consumption

manual typesetting; hand composition; hand setting

queef

pax; peace

thermal contraction; heat shrink

kitchen work; work in the kitchen; kitchen chores

empathy; capacity for empathy; sympathism

listening to a foreign-language recording while simultaneously reading aloud from a transcript (as a technique for improving listening skills, intonation, etc.)

burpee (exercise)

product designer

natural lake

computerization; computerisation

cut-sheet feeder; automatic document feeder

air brake

rubber sheet

spent shell casing; empty cartridge

coater; coating machine; coating device; coating tool

UV coating; UV varnish; ultraviolet coating

ultraviolet; UV; ultraviolet rays

overlapping grip

presenting one's positive qualities (esp. to a company as a part of its hiring process); selling one's strengths

rubber shoes; rubber boots

sustainability subsidy (for businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic)

key culprit; principal offender