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• Japanese ko-so-a-do demonstratives (e.g. pronouns: kore, sore, are, dore) - Linguistics term

noun:

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

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• Nihon Montoku Tenno Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 文徳実録・六国史

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• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

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• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

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

noun:

• bulbil (esp. of a Japanese yam); propagule; brood bud

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• techno-superliner (high-speed Japanese cargo ship); TSL

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• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

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• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007

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• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007 ➜ だらだらかげろう景気

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)

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• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• himedaka; gold-colored breed of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) ➜ メダカ

godan ~す verb:

• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect ➜ 寄せる
• to bring near; to put close; to let come near - archaism

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• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun:

• proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress

noun:

• nageire (casual or nature-imitating style of Japanese floral arrangement)

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• se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, ~99.174 m.sq.) - obsolete term ➜ 畝【ほ】

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• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

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• ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)

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• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

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• melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds