noun:

• Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)

noun:

• Transportation Corps (service branch of the Imperial Japanese Army) - obsolete term ➜ 輸送科

noun:

• etori (classic Japanese card game)

noun / ~する noun:

• depalatalization (e.g.. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation - e.g. conversion of きゃ to か - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 拗音【ようおん】

noun:

• Wamyoruijusho (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary) - abbreviation ➜ 倭名類聚鈔【わみょうるいじゅしょう】

noun:

• birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

noun:

• Mino paper (var. of Japanese paper) ➜ 和紙

noun:

• tosa (Japanese dog breed)

noun:

• rolled tail (of a traditional Japanese hat); looped tail

noun:

• Kanji to English (dictionary)

noun:

• scorpionfly (esp. the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica); scorpion fly

noun:

• superior chef (Japanese cuisine)

noun:

• (Japanese) bantam - From Vietnamese

noun:

• WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter) ➜ クールビズ

noun:

• hanging tail (of a traditional Japanese hat); drooping tail

noun:

• New Conservative Party (defunct Japanese political party)

noun:

• Wamyoruijusho (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary)

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Mixi (Japanese social networking website)

noun:

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

noun:

• 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)