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

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• kokyu (3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument)
• any Oriental string instrument played with a bow

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• Mixi (Japanese social networking website)

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• Hydrolagus eidolon (species of deep water Japanese cartilaginous fish)

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• hinona (Japanese variety of long-rooted pickling turnip, Brassica rapa var. akana)

noun:

• treble range (in Japanese music); high note

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• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

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• sudachi (species of Japanese citrus, Citrus sudachi)

noun:

• erect tail (of a traditional Japanese hat)

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• K-1 (Japanese kick-boxing promotion)

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• raised tatami-floored seating area (usu. in a Japanese restaurant); small separate dining room

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• abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format ➜ 暦【こよみ】

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• Central League (Japanese baseball league); CL

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• snake (esp. Japanese rat snake) - obscure term ➜ 青大将

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• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

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• field cap (used by Japanese troops in WW II)

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

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

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• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

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• tree frog (esp. the Japanese tree frog, Hyla japonica)

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• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

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• (Japanese) Protection of Personal Liberty Law (1948)

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• Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

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• lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens)

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• hachiya (variety of astringent Japanese persimmon)