noun:

• 1000 ryou (an old Japanese coin)
• Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae) - usu. センリョウ

noun:

• small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

noun:

• Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli)
• any rodent of subfamily Arvicolinae (incl. voles, lemmings and muskrats)

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids

noun:

• Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants

noun:

• Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)

noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• Japanese curry with an additional topping (e.g. shredded beef, hayashi-rice sauce, etc.)

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• Japan Defense Agency (Defence) (became Japanese Ministry of Defense in Jan. 2007) ➜ 防衛省

noun / ~の noun:

• first place; first rank; unit's position ［いちい］

noun:

• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) - usu. イチイ, also 櫟 - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)

noun:

• Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character)

noun:

• cloth (for Japanese clothes); textile; drapery; dry goods; piece goods
• silk fabrics ➜ 太物

noun:

• Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)

noun:

• Velcro (from Magic Tape - Japanese name for Velcro)

noun:

• nai stem (of a Japanese verb or adjective); irrealis form; imperfective form - Linguistics term

noun:

• icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait

noun:

• national law; laws of a nation
• national rites and ceremonies
• Japanese literature

noun:

• nuclear allergy; antipathy shown by the Japanese to nuclear weapons

noun:

• the order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones - four character idiom

noun:

• ichimatsu doll; traditional Japanese doll with a torso made of hardened sawdust

noun:

• Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten) ➜ 貂