noun:

• Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)

noun:

• Velcro (from Magic Tape - Japanese name for Velcro)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• national law; laws of a nation
• national rites and ceremonies
• Japanese literature

noun:

• nuclear allergy; antipathy shown by the Japanese to nuclear weapons

noun:

• the order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones - four character idiom

noun:

• ichimatsu doll; traditional Japanese doll with a torso made of hardened sawdust

noun:

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

noun:

• Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

noun:

• door (esp. Japanese-style) ［戸］ ➜ 扉
• shutter; window shutter
• entrance (to a home) - archaism
• narrows - archaism

noun:

• outline of the sun (esp. represented as a red circle)
• the Japanese flag - abbreviation ➜ 日の丸の旗

noun:

• Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture
• (ancient) Japan

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• Japanese ➜ 大和絵・大和魂

noun:

• pillow word (decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature)
• preface; introduction

noun:

• Japanese green gentian (Swertia japonica)
• alderfly (esp. species Sialis japonica); alder fly

noun:

• ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice)

noun:

• Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

noun:

• Chinese guger tree (Schima wallichii)
• sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua) ➜ 山茶花
• Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum) - archaism ➜ 鼠黐

noun:

• chrysanthemum taboo; taboo about criticizing or parodying the Japanese royal family

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽