Vocabulary

bureaucratic jargon; officialese; gobbledygook

platform gate

platform screen door; platform edge door; automatic platform gate

fango

fango; mud taken from a hot spring

good-natured

square millimeter; square millimetre

mother

father

mother

very slowly; sluggishly

sourness (in taste); acidity

uncle

take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)

square centimeter; square centimetre

safe electoral seat; safe electorate

election in a safe seat

intertropical convergence zone; ITCZ

job that requires traveling to work sites (e.g. repairman, gardener)

trade wind

job performed in one's home (e.g. tailor, seal engraver); domestic occupation

left-overs from gifts received by samurai or feudal lords (Edo period)

gifts given to or received by a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

person who bought and resold surplus gifts given to daimyo or samurai (Edo period)

wind calm; absence of wind

uploader (of a video, image, etc.)

goddamn

galactogogue; galactagogue

wide open sky; the blue; heavens; firmament

living in the mountains

living in the mountains

mountain well

mountain well

cable tie

to become insensitive; to become less perceptive; to lose one's touch; to get out of practice

premature alopecia

retractable (e.g. tape measure, landing gear)

confessional

host; holy wafer; consecrated bread in communion services

chasuble (liturgical vestment)