author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

alcohol, alcoholic beverage, inebriant, intoxicant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him"

Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

rice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

New World monkey, platyrrhine - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails

genus Pithecia, Pithecia - sakis