noun:

• previous wife; late wife

noun:

• "goggle-eyed" clay figure; variety of humanoid figurine from the late Jōmon period

noun:

• Omachi rice; late growing wet-land rice variety, often used in sake production

expression / noun:

• Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s

noun:

• deceased mother; late mother ➜ 亡父

noun:

• former crown prince; the late crown prince

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】

expression:

• only recently; just of late

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

noun:

• former master; late master

noun / ~の noun:

• latest; newest; late-breaking (news)

noun:

• expel the barbarians; expulsion of the foreigners; late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan

noun:

• Self-Strengthening Movement; Westernization Movement; political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty

noun:

• Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s ➜ 財閥

noun:

• night owl; nighthawk; late bird

~する noun:

• to stay up late; to keep late hours

expression:

• (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late"); (only) for ...; if we are restricting the discussion to...; in the particular case of

noun:

• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)

noun:

• eoraptor (late-Triassic dinosaur; Eoraptor lunensis) - From Latin

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE)

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

expression:

• summer-like (e.g. of weather in late spring)

noun:

• homosexual prostitute who sold favors at banquets, etc. (late Edo) - archaism ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
• actor-in-training in kabuki - archaism

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)