Vocabulary

round shield; buckler

blown-off roof Yamato-e painting technique; depiction of a building without its roof to show the interior

chief of the general staff; chief of staff (esp. US)

high tone

philately

philatelist; stamp collector

philatelist

activity-based costing; ABC

peremptory command; must-obey order; absolute instruction

(baton) exchange zone (in a relay race); takeover zone

friend code (number used to identify a user on Nintendo consoles)

library card

library card

book that cannot be taken out (of a library, etc.); restricted book; reference-only book

epidemiological investigation; epidemiological survey

pussy

secular state; secular nation

non-crystalline solid; amorphous solid

Korean (person)

polycrystal

nationwide local elections

credibility

and; although; but

false eyelashes

force field

Vietnamese (language)

carbon fixation; carbon assimilation

House of Good Sense (nickname of the House of Councillors)

survivorship bias; survival bias

carbon assimilation; carbon fixation

carbon assimilation; carbon fixation

carbon fixation; carbon assimilation

carbon dioxide fixation

carbon assimilation; carbon fixation

Sino-Vietnamese word; Vietnamese word of Chinese origin

Vietnamese (language)

Japan and Vietnam; Japanese-Vietnamese

home theater; home cinema

tempera painting

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