will you marry me

A stock phrase in Japanese pop culture supposedly used by the wife in a newly-wed couple to invite her new husband to bed.

Kyūjitai form of 私生児 (“illegitimate child”)

Synonym of ライラック (rairakku, “lilac”) (shrub)

Olympic village

ostracism; a type of extra-judicial social exclusion practiced in Japan where a villager disturbing the peace of a village is shunned by the rest of them

political party

bee, wasp, hornet

(sumo) title given to the highest ranking referee (gyōji) in professional sumo

crowded / group