Vocabulary

hick; country bumpkin; yokel

stupidity; ignorance; stupid person; ignorant person

ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism)

road rage; tailgating

ignoring someone completely

great deed; great enterprise; great work; massive undertaking

ceiling function

fresh off the farm; inexperienced

you cannot rely on parents and money to stay around forever; money comes and goes; so do parents

using one's own judgement; making up one's own mind; judging for oneself

you can never be too careful

tiled; covered with tiles

tile setting; laying tiles

tobacco field; tobacco patch

mortadella

food theme park; indoor park with many restaurants and food shops based on a single theme

sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

semi-hard (bag, cheese, etc.)

returning to one's base (after a fly ball)

to make a net; to knit a net

vehicle; horse-drawn carriage

in succession; one after another

fruiting body; sporocarp

supportive device (for the disabled, e.g. prosthetic limb); assistive device

mixture of mayonnaise and canned tuna, used on bread, pasta, etc.

alternative fuel

presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce

semi-retirement

semi suite; large hotel room with separate sleeping and living room areas

you (plural)

Bollywood

coffee pot; coffee maker; percolator

bath taken after everyone else (in the family)

straight shooter; frank person; person who tells it like it is

number theory

after-school education; cram school education

lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box

being jealous of someone over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)

mildly air-conditioned railway carriage

to be the first to speak; to break the silence