Vocabulary

over-concentrated shape; placing too many stones in the same area

volume-sales electronics retailer; electronics retail store

contradiction in terms

Mediterranean diet

paleolithic diet; paleo diet

vegetarianism

haricot; kidney bean

fonio (Digitaria exilis); white fonio; fonio millet; hungry rice; acha rice; foño

sparrow chick (kigo)

Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)

winglet

aerospace

aerospace engineering

space agency

dosa (fermented crepe)

clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; CRISPR

goodbye; see you later; bye-bye

parking space certificate (sometimes required for car ownership)

angled luffa (Luffa acutangula); Chinese okra; dish cloth gourd; ridged gourd; sponge gourd; vegetable gourd

gutweed (Ulva intestinalis); grass kelp

hitoegusa (Monostroma nitidum)

Petalonia binghamiae (edible species of brown algae)

Ecklonia stolonifera (edible species of brown algae)

Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)

kagome kombu (Saccharina sculpera)

Campylaephora hypnaeoides (species of red algae); egonori

devil weed (Sargassum horneri)

wild harvested nori

snake soup

reduction in working hours; shorter working hours

sandwich spread

vigor (like leaping flames); liveliness

brogue (shoe type)

yotsugana; the four kana (ji, di, zu, du)

Japonic languages

concentric

Hokkaido dialect

Hokkaido dialect

Okinawan Japanese

fermentation engineering