noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• slither link (popular Japanese number puzzle)

noun:

• tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica) - colloquialism ➜ 斑猫

noun:

• kappore (traditional Japanese comic dance)

noun:

• jiro (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

noun:

• Control Faction (of the Imperial Japanese Army)

noun:

• sho (Japanese free reed musical instrument) - obscure term ➜ 笙

noun:

• page one (Japanese card game)

noun:

• Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten) ➜ 貂

noun:

• (Japanese) Darby and Joan dolls ➜ 高砂・高砂の松

noun / ~する noun:

• recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing
• composition (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); composed poem

noun:

• Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

noun:

• (Japanese) Privy Council (abolished in 1947)

noun:

• (traditional Japanese) musical instruments

noun:

• mass retirement (esp. that of the Japanese baby boomers)

noun / ~の noun:

• (Japanese) archery

noun:

• Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)

noun:

• sho (Japanese free reed musical instrument) ➜ 笙

noun:

• rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• go-slow tactics (of Japanese railway workers) - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• (Japanese) Darby and Joan ➜ 高砂・高砂の松

noun:

• (Japanese-style) dining table

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)