noun:

• K-1 (Japanese kick-boxing promotion)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Central League (Japanese baseball league); CL

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• 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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• 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

noun:

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

noun:

• Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

noun:

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

noun:

• hachiya (variety of astringent Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format - abbreviation ➜ 略本暦

noun:

• CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) character unification

noun:

• (Japanese) Narcotics Control Law

noun:

• Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895) - obscure term ➜ 日清戦争

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

noun:

• bullhead shark (esp. the Japanese bullhead shark, Heterodontus japonicus)

noun:

• fuyu (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)