Vocabulary

half-width alphanumeric character

revision (of text); correction

harmonious divorce settlement

small characters; small letters

polyrhythm

diurnal range (of temperature); daily range

annual range (of temperature)

cultural appropriation

National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium); Spring Koshien

inner window

outer window

antique; antique artwork

parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku

public-domain software

variant of interest (of SARS-CoV-2); VOI

did

bottom part of a lidded box (i.e. the box itself without the lid)

model school

home cooking; home meal

news reporter; journalist

joint representative; joint representation

Underpopulated Areas Revitalizing Law

Hepburn romanization; Hepburn system of romanizing Japanese

big shot

night battle

joik (traditional Sami song); yoik

deixis

to hunch one's shoulders; to arch one's back

did something happen?; what's with you?; what's wrong?; what's cooking?

quartz sand

two-sided photocopying; double-sided copy

double-sided printing; duplex printing; printing on both sides (of paper)

feeling that something is missing; sense that something is incomplete

baking tray; baking sheet; sheet pan

sick dog

newly written history; new history

awful; terrible; dreadful; horrible; atrocious; extremely cruel

(since) long ago; for a long time

reason; logic

diphthong