a Japanese card game similar to Baccarat, where the goal is to achieve a hand scoring as close to 9 points as possible

walkman (any personal cassette player)

To stay away from danger, to lie low.

a Secretary of State of the US State Department

(disaster prevention) Short for 木造住宅密集地域 (mokuzō jūtaku misshū chiiki, “densely built wooden house area”).

for the time being, for the present

the basics, a general idea

a special talent or skill that one is good at / an act or expression that one often does

deathwatch beetle

(2channel slang) repeating something for the n-th time