noun:

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

noun:

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

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

pronoun:

• this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) ➜ 何れ・其れ・彼【あれ】
• this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group) - humble language
• now
• here - archaism
• I (me) - archaism
• certainly - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to include (in a group or scope)
• to instruct; to make one understand
• to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication)
• to put in (someone's) mouth
• to permeate with flavor

noun:

• system
• lineage; ancestry; family line
• group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); party; school (of thought)
• close (evolutionary) relationship
• a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics); strain (e.g. bacterial)

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:

• miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)

noun:

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