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• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

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• shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute

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• kun reading; kun'yomi; native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音読み

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• paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern

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• happi coat; happy coat; workman's livery coat; traditional Japanese straight-sleeved coat

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• shiatsu; acupressure; form of Japanese finger-pressure therapy

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• Japan Revolutionary Communist League-National Committee; JRCL; Middle Core Faction [literal]; Japanese far-left revolutionary group

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• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

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• loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear
• kimono underskirt ［ふんどし・ふどし］ ➜ 腰巻
• wrestler's ornamental apron ［ふんどし・ふどし］ - Sumo term

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• yen-denominated foreign bond; samurai bond; bond denominated in yen issued by a non-Japanese issuer

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• Nippon Kempo; Nihon Kempo; Japanese martial art - Martial Arts term

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• Nagoya harp; Taishō koto; Japanese harp with two to five strings

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• snowrose (Serissa japonica); tree of a thousand stars; Japanese boxthorn

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• wokou; wakou; Japanese pirates of the Middle Ages

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• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

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• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

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• sika deer (Cervus nippon); sika; spotted deer; Japanese deer

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• Mahavairocana (Tathagata); Great Sun; Supreme Buddha of Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism

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• conjunctive form; continuative form; -masu stem of a Japanese verb - Linguistics term

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• Naporitan; Napolitan; Japanese spaghetti dish made with ketchup - From French "napolitain"

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• kuruma prawn (Marsupenaeus japonicus); kuruma shrimp; Japanese tiger prawn

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• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

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• Anderson's crocodile newt (Echinotriton andersoni); Anderson's newt; Ryukyu spiny newt; Japanese warty newt

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• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化

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• beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather