battery-assisted bicycle; electric bicycle; e-bike
shredded kombu; Kjellmaniella gyrata (species of kelp)
wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot
real estate world; property market
year of one's birth; one's birth year
serious relationship (esp. one with the prospect of marriage)
Kanjani Eight, Japanese pop group; Kansai Johnny's junior
temporary employment agency; personnel placement agency; staffing agency; temp agency; temping agency
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame
one's habitual practice; usual measure; old trick
to attract someone with food
line-up (baseball, product, etc.); lineup
sweatshirt; sweatpants; sweats; sweat
hair crab (Erimacrus isenbeckii)
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star; UGM-27 Polaris (nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missile)
red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus)
disaster prevention practice
starfish; sea star; asteroid; northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)
hotel voucher; accommodation voucher
teppanyaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)
pseudonym used when calling in or writing to a radio program
secret menu; secret menu item
from the beginning; from scratch
feeling of fullness; ability of a food to fill you up
matsutake mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake)
Hello Work; nickname for the Public Employment Security Office
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
to smash; to break into pieces
repaying a debt after achieving success; promise to repay a debt after achieving success