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Words which are special in that they have no direct translation in other languages. “Word” is a stretchable term here, this might also be a set phrases here and not just a single word. Some pieces are from here.

• あげおとり: When you look after a haircut worse then before.
• ありがた迷惑: When someone does you a favour you had not asked for, and the result is causing you inconvenience - but you need to be grateful nontheless.
• バックシャン: A woman that looks far better from behind than from the front
• ぼけっと: Staring blankly out into space, without any thoughts
• 八方美人: Being ungenuinely nice to everyone out of fear of being disliked
• 過労死: death from to much work
• 賢者タイム: Timespan after the sexual act when a man is free of desire and can think clearly
• 金継ぎ: the art of repairing pottery with gold, the piece gains a history by doing that
• 恋の予感: The feeling, upon first meeting someone, that you will eventually fall in love.
• 口寂しい: The feeling of having to put something in ones mouth, i.e. to eat or to smoke tabaco. Lit: 'the mouth is lonely'.
• 教育まま: A mother who is eagerly pushing the child to study
• 森林浴: 'forest bathing', recovery by walking in the woods
• 辻斬（つじぎり）: Act of trying out a new sword on a random stranger
• 積ん読（つんどく）: Buying books without reading them
• 侘寂（わびさび）: world view to accept the imperfect nature of life
• よこめし: the experience of having conversation in a foreign language
• 七転び八起き(ななころびやおき）: Falling down 7 times, getting up 8 times

These are phrases, which can just normally be translated to a certain meaning but are 'defined' to have a special meaning.

• 大きな世話になります: literally “you are caring much about me/doing much for me”, but real meaning is “you are overdoing, stop right now here”. There are other surrounding phrases which have no 'hidden meaning': 大変お世話になります (“you are doing so much for me”), お世話になります (“you are doing much for me”).
• ぶぶ漬けでもどうどす: Kyoto dialect, literally “Should we prepare some chazuke(rice with green tea)?”. The real meaning is, aimed at guests at ones house “it's about time for you to go home now”.

• Dad jokes in Japanese products