Vocabulary

paper weight (in grams per square metre); grammage

paper weight (in grams per square metre); grammage

character encoding; character code

bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

cocker spaniel

manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand

sale of one's belongings before returning to one's country; sayonara sale

Aum Shinrikyo; religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

(political) violence; violent tactics used by political radicals

bicycle theft

puppet with a moving mouth

mark indicating that the order of the adjacent characters is to be reversed (for reading kanbun in Japanese word order)

part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

omelette-wrapped eel; basted, roasted eel wrapped in a rolled omelette

word, phrase, or image that is perceived as showing or suggesting discrimination or prejudice against a person or group of people

cleaning dirt or sand out of the digestive system

absolute respectful speech; absolute honorifics

relative respectful speech; relative honorifics

Asama-Sanso incident (hostage crisis and police siege; February 1972)

central America

ceiling fan

imperial princess

(young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories)

female ninja

stockout; out of stock

queen ant

House of Councillors election; upper house election

grid-line (e.g. in spreadsheet); enclosing line

hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)

group delay (in fibre optics, fiber optics)

group velocity (in fibre optics, fiber optics)

phase velocity

house boat

approved plan or drawing

attributing a sequence number (packet, message, etc.)

face plant; landing on one's face

the whole day; all the day

the whole week; all the week

the whole month; all the month

the whole month; all the month