I like these:<p><i>Murahachibu</i>: shunning, public ostracism. Originally meant being excluded from eight (out of ten) aspects of village life. The two jobs which a person under murahachibu were still allowed to perform were firefighting and undertaking, considered the meanest, dirtiest, and least desirable jobs. Handling corpses was thought to make a person &quot;unclean&quot;, and persons who did so were isolated to the slummiest village districts called <i>buraku</i>; from these are descended the <i>burakumin</i>, who (much like blacks in the USA) have been historically an oppressed underclass and yet have contributed much to the modern street culture of Japan.<p>Modern murahachibu is practiced in a less severe form: if you fail to kiss the right asses and scratch the right backs in your professional or social life, you will find yourself without help when you most need help.<p><i>Daikon ashi</i>: thick legs (on a woman). A daikon is, of course, a long thick radish used in Japanese cooking. It turns out that Japanese women are at least as self-conscious about not having a &quot;thigh gap&quot; as are Western women.<p><i>Tachiyomi</i>: to &quot;read standing up&quot;. When you&#x27;re in a bookshop and you pick a book off the shelf and start reading it right in the shop. Manga fans love to do this; bookshop owners will sometimes throw people out for doing it. Brings back memories of being an early teen and heading straight for the magazine racks to read ALL THE GAMING MAGAZINES while my mother did the shopping.