Vocabulary

National Research Institute of Police Science (abbr)

University of California, Berkeley

Mino-Owari Earthquake (1891); Nōbi Earthquake

Brentford (English football club)

Drive Club (former car rental agency)

Crystal Palace (English football club)

Eki Net (JR travel reservation service)

University of Shimane

National Federation of Employees' Pensioners' Associations

National Federation of Employees' Pensioners' Associations (abbr.)

(provincial branch of the) National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives

Hokkaido Social Welfare Association

National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives

National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (abbr)

Perry Expedition (1853); arrival of the Black Ships

Sound Blaster (sound card)

NHK Educational TV

NHK Educational TV

Samurai Blue (nickname for the Japan national football team)

Buzzword of the Year Award (organized by publisher Jiyu Kokumin-sha)

Slidac (variable autotransformer)

da Vinci

Wilton carpet

Associated Press; AP

Comme des Garçons (fashion company)

Alternative for Germany; AfD

ASKUL

Molex Inc.

Cessna (aircraft)

Nakba (1948 Palestinian exodus)

The Three Little Pigs (fable)

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Space Invaders (game)

Akitsu Springs (1947 novel by Shinji Fujiwara, 1962 film)

Powerade (sports drink)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983 film)

Strider (brand of balance bike)

Tōkyō Yūshun (annual horse race in Fuchū); Japan Derby; Japanese Derby

Advanced Research Projects Agency; ARPA