Vocabulary

custom-made goods

custom-made product; own-brand product

Brazilian wax

track bicycle

fixed gear (on a bicycle)

automated shop; unmanned store

automated shop; unmanned store

lack of Japanese language support for Japanese-made content (esp. video games)

package delivery company

late check-out (of a hotel)

one step ahead

long-term policy

specialist agency; specialized agency; professional body

grand-scale campaign; massive campaign

this article; this manuscript; this paper; this post (on a blog, etc.)

as before; as usual; the way it used to be

remote lesson; remote class; online lesson

hyper reality; surrealism

country one is staying in

functioning of society; functions of society

emergency room; ER

emergency room; ER

(used) book without the original cover (or box)

water dispute (esp. for rice fields); water conflict

prior occupation

acquisition by occupancy

acquisition by occupancy

ownerless property; bona vacantia

accumulation; piling up

relation between supply and demand

worrying over various things

polygenesis; polyphylesis

nishiki-e shinbun; type of woodblock-printed newspaper popular in the early Meiji period

Sino-Japanese word; word using Chinese-derived readings

relative position

lacking the power of observation; not being observant; having a poor eye (for)

buttock hair

painful to listen to; unbearable to hear

escape!; flee!; run away!

moving away from fossil fuels; phasing out fossil fuels; decarbonization; post-fossil fuels