Vocabulary

South Manchurian Railway (abbr)

Tōkaidō Line

Rohypnol (brand name for benzodiazepine or flunitrazepam)

Robinson Crusoe; The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (orig. Japanese title)

the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Robinson Crusoe; The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Tetra Pak

Tetoron (type of polyester fibre)

Teletopia

Discman; diskman

DirecTV

Decola (brand-name laminate similar to Formica, made of melamine resin)

British East India Company

Dutch East India Company

Japan National Oil Corporation

Tateishi Electronics (orig. name for OMRON Corporation)

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; ICANN

Government Housing Loan Corporation; Housing Loan Corporation

Silicon Graphics, Inc.; SGI

Nippon Steel Corporation (abbr)

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (defunct)

Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency

magical circlet given from Guanyin to Xuanzang used to control Sun Wukong (from A Journey To The West)

(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Depo-provera

Newsweek

Nutella

Nutella

Neorever (coating remover solvent)

Nestlé

Northwest (airline)

Harrier (aircraft)

Halosten (Japanese brand of haloperidol)

Vitarice

Video Research Ltd

Video Research Ltd