noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc. ➜ Ｖ系【ブイけい】
• handsome man (esp. one who knows this)

noun:

• Japanese dumpling soup

noun:

• southern Japanese mudskipper - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ ミナミトビハゼ

noun:

• small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus)

noun:

• Japanese English

noun:

• single kanji dictionary (usu. for use in an Input Method)

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

noun:

• cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets

noun:

• Japanese painted fern (Athyrium niponicum); pictum

noun:

• Japanese vellum

noun:

• Japanese children's game
• preliminary test to eliminate weak contenders - sensitive

noun:

• Japanese hornet (Vespa simillima, esp. subspecies Vespa simillima simillima); yellow hornet

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode ➜ 律旋

noun:

• Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata) - archaism ➜ 欅

noun:

• Japanese imperialism - short for 日本帝国主義 - abbreviation

noun:

• Japanese tungoil tree (Vernicia cordata) ➜ 油桐【あぶらぎり】

noun:

• ancient Japanese sweat-absorbent summer garment - archaism

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

noun:

• Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to transliterate classical Chinese into Japanese