noun:

• fifth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音

noun:

• casual dish (esp. Japanese food); simple dish - Food term ➜ 小料理屋

noun:

• supernatural tanuki (Japanese folklore) ➜ 狸【たぬき】

noun:

• adjectival noun (Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- and tari-adjective - part of speech tag used in dictionaries - abbreviation - Linguistics term ➜ 形容動詞

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo)

noun:

• pineapple bun (Chinese sweet pastry similar to the Japanese melonpan) ➜ メロンパン

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese) - abbreviation ➜ ナ行変格活用

noun:

• rice with tea poured on it (Japanese dish) - polite language ➜ 茶漬け

noun:

• five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)
• five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships ［五果］ - Buddhism term
• five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life ［五果］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• jujitsu (classical Japanese martial art, usually referring to fighting without a weapon); jiujitsu; jujutsu

noun:

• Chino Shōhō (Japanese religious group founded by Chino Yūko)

noun:

• enhanced (Japanese) keyboard - IT term

noun:

• bing-bong bang-bong (Big Ben chimes, used as a bell in Japanese schools) ➜ 予鈴

noun:

• Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三代実録

expression:

• seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon) ➜ 秋の七草

noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌

noun:

• Philopon (banned Japanese brand-name methamphetamine)

noun:

• eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

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

noun:

• Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE)
• Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE)
• era of vicious competition

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)