noun:

• (Japanese) Protection of Personal Liberty Law (1948)

noun:

• scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture

noun:

• letter dropped in the road; Japanese insect

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reading (Chinese) without syntactical rearrangement into Japanese

noun:

• esoteric Buddhism of the Japanese Tendai sect - Buddhism term ➜ 東密【とうみつ】

noun:

• Japanese reading of a Chinese character

noun:

• Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

noun:

• sumo performed at ancient Japanese imperial court - Sumo term

noun:

• full Japanese court dress of traditional fashion - four character idiom

noun:

• Daijirin (major Japanese dictionary published by Sanseidou)

noun:

• stalled session of the Diet (Japanese Parliament) - four character idiom

noun:

• go-slow tactics (of Japanese railway workers) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese elm (Ulmus davidiana var. japonica)

noun:

• Wamyoruijusho (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary) - abbreviation ➜ 倭名類聚鈔【わみょうるいじゅしょう】

noun:

• Liberal League (Japanese political party, 1994-2005)

noun:

• esoteric Buddhism of the Japanese Shingon sect - Buddhism term ➜ 台密【たいみつ】

noun:

• English-Japanese (usu. for translation and dictionaries) ➜ 日英

noun:

• Spanish-Japanese (gen. for translations and dictionaries)

noun / ~する noun:

• translation from a foreign language into Japanese - obscure term ➜ 和訳

noun:

• round collar (of traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) ➜ 井守

noun:

• Japanese cockroach (Periplaneta japonica)

noun:

• soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles ➜ 蕎麦

noun:

• Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)

noun:

• small eggplant ➜ 茄子
• Japanese yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia japonica) - usually written using kana alone