Vocabulary

birthplace (of a company or business)

horizontal stone chamber; corridor-type tunnel tomb

shōya-ken; kitsune-ken; game similar to rock, paper, scissors, played with hand gestures representing a fox, hunter and village headman

artificial sweetener; synthetic sweetener

dimensionless quantity

private lesson

abstract number

one-on-one lesson; private lesson

lowest common denominator; least common denominator; LCD

white broth (esp. for ramen); broth without soy sauce (made by simmering bones)

third quarter (of a year)

second quarter (of a year)

first quarter (of a year, sports game, etc.)

advisory board

New Year holidays

ditch; drain; gutter; trench

underskirt; petticoat

namer; author (of a scientific name)

novelty goods

thermal transfer printing

(printing, etc.) plate cost

touch (of an object, when touching it with one's fingers)

exomoon; extrasolar moon

meningococcal meningitis; cerebrospinal meningitis

septic meningitis; purulent meningitis; suppurative meningitis

loop-mediated isothermal amplification; LAMP

deep pan; sauté pan

Okhotsk culture

Satsumon culture

brush-mark pattern (scraped into the surface of earthenware with wood)

crops planted to stave off famine (e.g., wheat, barley, buckwheat, potatoes); emergency crops

going out in search of plum blossoms; plum-blossom viewing

two dimensional code (e.g. QR code); 2D barcode; matrix barcode

two dimensional code (e.g. QR code); 2D barcode; matrix barcode

parallel import; grey import; gray import

marvel

movie theater showing a (particular) movie; cinema showing a film

agricultural people

hair donation

admission fee (at the theatre, etc.)