明記: / 銘記:

鯣烏賊: Japanese flying squid

方位磁針: magnetic compass

age of eighty-eight (from the shape of the character 米 which contains the letters 八 in the upper and lower parts)

総理大臣: (government, politics) prime minister

異星人: alien

島外人: (colloquial) island foreigner; A person who is not of Japanese descent but lives in Okinawa, Japan as a preference and who has adjusted to the customs of the Okinawan people and lifestyle.

現代人: modern man/person

avant-garde art

clever; smart; sharp / (prefix) emperor's; imperial