Vocabulary

final state

inanimate subject

mutually exclusive

intermediate-range ballistic missile

inspection of police (by the prefectural chief of police)

Imperial Palace guard

fold; crease

Internet charge

home video

net zero; greenhouse gas emission neutral

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to knock; to run (into); to crash (into)

Brazil and Argentina; Brazilian-Argentine

pork steak served in a tangy sauce

pizza cutter; pizza wheel

may you live a thousand years

with a chopping sound (of an axe); with a thump (when hammering a post into the ground)

upsert; (database) update or insert

birthwort (Aristolochia debilis)

to beat to death

negawatt (unit of energy saved)

interloper; third wheel; nuisance; burden; hanger-on

reshuffled cabinet; reformed cabinet

to rustle; to crackle; to crinkle

attachment; love; affection; fondness

raw fuel; raw materials and fuels

fuel cost adjustment (system); adjustment of monthly electricity charges according to the import prices of raw materials (crude oil, LNG and coal)

(monthly) electricity (or gas) usage charge (calculated using the adjusted unit rate)

cancer insurance

push gift (present given to a mother after childbirth); push present

guaiacum (Guaiacum officinale); roughbark lignum-vitae; guaiacwood

large baby; macrosomic baby

nise-e; style of portrait popular in court circles in the Kamakura period

red; deep red; crimson

sound of a shot; gunfire

court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace)

backcountry; off-piste

unlucky day for starting construction of a house (which would result in a fire that spreads to three adjacent houses)

dare

loud explosion; thunderous blast

foreign cooperation; international cooperation