入

key customers; key customer; major clients; major client

to be dumbfounded; to be amazed

Buddhism

to attain enlightenment

sleep onset REM period; SOREMP

automatic teller machine; ATM

graduate school entrance examination

Computing

direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion)

go-between; intermediate; agent (e.g. for employing servants)

public bath with mixed bathing

ringed seal (Pusa hispida)

input settings; input configuration

import letter of credit

Noun or verb acting prenominally

advance purchase (e.g. fare)

advance purchase excursion fare; APEX fare

on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

asset purchase

Computing

input of kana alone (i.e. without conversion into kanji); input in no-conversion-mode

insertion switch

Derogatory; Because many pachinko parlours are owned or run by people of Korean ancestry

pachinko

short-term loans payable; short-term debt; short-term borrowing

E.g. やきもち→やしきしもしちし

language game in which extra syllables are added to words

mercury intrusion; mercury penetration; mercury porosimetry

Economics

sterilized intervention

neither gain nor loss; neither too much nor too little