Vocabulary

holiday trip; vacation trip

new menu item; new dish on a menu

good at storytelling; good at telling (funny) stories; having the gift of gab

unstable weather preceding the rainy season (normally occurring in May)

last rain of the rainy season (often accompanied by thunderstorms)

anorthosite

convenience store lunch box

waste-disposal facility; landfill; garbage dump

tarot reading; tarot fortune-telling

swan boat; swan-shaped paddle boat

underground space; subterranean space; subterranea

entry number

basketball club

I'm good, thanks; I'll stay out of this one

to sacrifice oneself (for); to give one's life (for); to die for (for)

Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)

second year of elementary school; second year elementary school student

man purported to bring good luck to the woman he is near or has sex with

living street

Greater China (incl. Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and sometimes Singapore); Sinosphere

sinophone world; Chinese-speaking world

Mid-Autumn Festival (in Chinese and Vietnamese culture); Moon Festival; Mooncake Festival

four years

(train) station attendant; station employee; station staff

work at a train station; station service; station work

the five continents; Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia; Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America

got it; roger; leave it to me

Kamo eggplant (Solanum melongena; round variety originally grown in Kyoto)

out-of-service car; out-of-service train; out-of-service bus; deadhead

operations center (railway, power plant, etc.); control room

small castle projecting from a larger castle; tower projecting from a larger castle

skewered dango

media bashing; bashing the media

American Sign Language; ASL

to become free; to get time off

sign language

International Sign (pidgin sign language); IS

German-speaking countries; German language sphere

polite; courteous; civil

Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!