Kieru Souseijima part 1

Betcha thought I'd never come back! Well that almost makes two of us. ;)

but no, I'm just masochistic enough to take this seriously.
So this time on the intermediate japanese channel I'll write down the new vocab I learned when reading a cute kids series 'Mei-tantei Yumemizu Kyoshiro' or,
名探偵夢水きょしろう

消える総生島

招待券	しょうたいけん	ticket(to a show), pass
迫力	はくりょく	force, intensity
圧倒される	あっとうされる	to be overwhelmed
校則	こうそく	school
ひょろひょろ		frail, lanky
華麗	かれい	goreous
論外	ろんがい	out of the question
怪奇	かいき	bizzare
交渉	こうしょう	negotiations
しょっちゅう		always
惨劇	さんげき	declaration
宣伝	せんでん	publicity

Disaster Vocab

There is always new vocabulary to learn in extraordinary situations. Sitting in my living room watching the news after the great Touhoku Earthquake, Great Touhoku Tsunami, and Great Tohoku Nuclear Plant Failure, I am barraged by vocab I don't know, and really feel I ought to for my own safety. The following is a list of all the words I personally learned through osmosis in the last two weeks.

vocab	reading	meaning	comments
余震	よしん	Aftershock	You probably already know 地震, or earthquake, right? but you might not know this one. We had several hundred small ones, and several dozen big aftershocks.
買いだめ	かいだめ	stockpiling	As in, 'STOP THE 買いだめ' = don't make a run on the shops.
震災	しんさい	earthquake disaster	In japanese, there is not just one word for 'disaster' - you write the type of disaster in the first kanji, then add 災as a suffix: 火災,戦災etc.
放射能	ほうしゃのう	radiation.
行方不明	ゆくえふめい	whereabouts unknown
安否確認	あんぴかくにん	checking on a person's safety	This can mean you contact the person you're worried about, or they contact you.
停電	ていでん	blackout	Also good to know: 計画停電【けいかくていでん】 (n) planned power outage 輪番停電【りんばんていでん】 (n) rolling blackout
献血	けんけつ	blood donation	also:血液型(けつえきがた）means blood type.
募金	ぼきん	(money) donation	as in, 赤十字に募金しましょう:let's donate to the Red Cross!

Sorry to start the blog on depressing vocabulary, but it's more depressing feeling helpless and in the dark in these situations. Learn what you can, do what you can!
頑張れ日本！