noun:

• techno-superliner (high-speed Japanese cargo ship); TSL

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007 ➜ だらだらかげろう景気

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)

noun:

• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• himedaka; gold-colored breed of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) ➜ メダカ

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun:

• proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress

noun:

• nageire (casual or nature-imitating style of Japanese floral arrangement)

noun:

• se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, ~99.174 m.sq.) - obsolete term ➜ 畝【ほ】

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun:

• ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)

noun:

• var. of traditional white, uncreased Japanese paper, made from high-quality mulberry wood ➜ 奉書

noun:

• kaki (Japanese persimmon) seed
• spicy baked or fried mochi chips in this shape

noun:

• neckband; round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• Japanese, Chinese and Western (e.g. when referring to food styles available, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• reading a text from start to finish
• transliterating classical Chinese into Japanese ➜ よみくだす