Vocabulary

Oyashio class submarine

Abukuma class destroyer escort

Yubari class destroyer escort

Ishikari class destroyer escort

Hatsuyuki class destroyer

Asagiri class destroyer

Murasame class destroyer

Takanami class destroyer

Haruna class destroyer

Shirane class destroyer

Yaeyama class minesweeper

Osumi class vehicle transport ship

cheeseburger

cabbage roll; stuffed cabbage

passionfruit (Passiflora edulis)

belly

hairstyle with hair cut short to typical men's hair length

halfsies; splitting evenly between two people

style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

literary form imparting the nuance of speech (with sentences ending in "da")

literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru")

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

potato starch

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

tteokbokki (stir-fried rice cakes cooked in a spicy sauce or soy sauce)

basidiomycete

Deuteromycota; fungi imperfecti; mitosporic fungi; anamorphic fungi

myxomycete; slime mold

myxomycete; slime mold

Zygomycota

actinomycete; actinomycetes; ray fungus

eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

phase transition; phase change; phase transformation

all-nighter; staying up all night

concrete mixer truck

what you see is what you get; WYSIWYG

morpho (butterfly, Morpho sp.)

sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)

solar tide (tides caused by the Sun)