noun:

• total number of words used (in a text)

noun:

• two-story basement (as in department stores)

noun:

• most hallowed grounds (of a sacred site in Okinawa) ➜ 御嶽【うたき】

noun:

• roasted pork fillet (often used in ramen) - Food term - From Chinese "chashao"

noun:

• tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

noun:

• Siganus woodlandi (species of rabbitfish found in New Caledonia)

noun / ~する noun:

• consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism); sanctification; prayer of sanctification; ritual of consecration

noun:

• thinner futon (in contact with the skin)

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term

noun:

• Trimma (genus of goby in the family Gobiidae)

expression:

• excuse me (when passing in front of somebody) - polite language

noun:

• prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 徒【ず】

noun:

• clean room (e.g. in semiconductor manufacturing); cleanroom

noun:

• realis form (of verbs and adjectives in classical Japanese); perfective form - Linguistics term ➜ 仮定形【かていけい】

noun / ~する noun:

• corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text - IT term

noun:

• solar-evaporation process (in salt making)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• silent (esp. of the passing of the night)
• piercing (cold) ［しんしん］

noun:

• sound pressure level (usu. measured in decibel); SPL

noun:

• Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to guarantee (someone's ability or the quality of their work); to vouch for; to endorse ➜ 太鼓判を押す

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan) - archaism ➜ 耳当

noun:

• washed-out colour (in photography) (color)