本国: home country, homeland, mother country

串揚げ: food deep fried on skewers

The katakana syllable ロ (ro). Its equivalent in hiragana is ろ (ro). It is the forty-third syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ラ行オ段 (ra-gyō o-dan, “row ra, section o”).

功, 勲, 勲男, 勇雄: a male given name