Vocabulary

sling bag

cross-vaccination; vaccination with different vaccines

nucleic acid amplification test; NAT

swab fluid

playback device

high-fat; fatty

government office-building complex

high-protein

hyperproteinemia

thighbone (esp. in pigs); femur

woodblock artist; woodblock printmaker

vegetable resin

bamboo sheath; bamboo peel

art supply store

shoji screen with a wooden panel in the bottom part

disc golf (flying disc sport)

obstacle; impediment; hindrance; barrier; difficulty

diameter symbol

Quercus gilva (species of oak)

eyebrow trimming

beautiful eyebrows

beautiful eyelashes

over-belief in (the importance of) academic credentials; academic credentialism

red envelope (New Year's gift in Sinic cultures)

big boom; big craze; big thing; all the rage

earliest stage; very beginning; earliest phase; earliest days

genome analysis; genomic analysis

healthcare worker; medical care provider; medical personnel; medical staff

target gene

deficiency; lack; being missing

rule of reliance on reasonable conduct; principle that one is not legally responsible for failing to take into account that another party is not following the law

noodle shop

mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face

view of Mount Fuji with the sun aligned with the summit

Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans)

civil engineer

marine engineer

lingual orthodontics (e.g. braces)

yukahon; books with large characters placed on the floor to be read from by the narrator in jōruri and bunraku

folding fan shop