The examples you've given seem to fall in this category.
The other way they can use English is just by writing/speaking in English. The examples you've given don't really fall into the above category, but there are many examples like this so it's worth mentioning. They're better described as Japanese words which are based off English words. The loanwords are borrowed from English, but both the meanings and pronunciations can be radically different from the English words. That doesn't really represent a use of English, though.
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In case it's ambiguous how to pronounce English words in Japanese, these are also usually standardized. energy becomes エネルギ (enerugi) with a hard g sound). Also, some of the words are pronounced differently in Japanese than English (e.g. There are a very large number of loanwords, but it's fairly standardized what is a loanword and what is not. In this case, the words are written in katakana (カタカナ). Most of the words came from English, though there are also some from other western languages.
As a result, it was decided that rather than creating new words for all of these concepts, they would just borrow the words from other languages. Before that, Japan was a very isolated culture for a very long time, so a lot of concepts simply didn't exist in the language. The Japanese language was more-or-less standardized during the Meiji Restoration, in the late 19th century. There are two different ways that one can use English words in Japanese.
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