Vocabulary

viscous fluid

construction work

paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern

poem by the emperor or a member of the imperial family

transactional analysis

(email) outbox

respectable catch; good-sized fish

tether

squeaky toy hammer

polar circle; polar region

spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum); springstar

counting money; calculating income and expenditure

adolescence; boyhood

pre-babyboomers (children born between 1943 and 1946 in Japan)

ban'ei; form of horse racing in which draft horses pull heavy sleds up sand ramps

media worker

available products (in a particular store); products on offer

pro-code (use of traditional programming languages to create applications; as opposed to low-code or no-code)

craftsman; artisan; workman; carpenter

twin paradox (thought experiment)

slices of kamaboko served with grated wasabi

open-air veranda with thin boards running the length of it

ruling over (one's land, territory, etc.)

possessing (a territory, land, etc.); ruling over; managing

associate judge; associate justice

pseudohypoparathyroidism

station sign; station nameplate

side platform; marginal platform; single-face platform

correspondence table

shogi spectator; shogi fan who enjoys watching matches but does not play

ikebana; Japanese art of flower arrangement

changing clothes (on another person, e.g. a child or doll); changing the exterior parts (e.g. of a product)

good news; favourable information

gifu lantern; elegant egg-shaped paper lantern, usu. with a tassel at the bottom, made in Gifu

chestnut manjū (filled with a paste of red bean and chestnut)

fragment of a historical document; scrap of an old manuscript; piece of an antique record

forbidden gate; heavily guarded gate

parasocial

early access

early access (esp. to a product under development)