noun:

• Mahonia japonica; Japanese mahonia

noun:

• polite style; polite Japanese ➜ 普通体

noun:

• Japanese chromis (Chromis mirationis)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• Japanese record; national record

adverb / noun:

• regularly; promptly - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• sound of clashing swords - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Manchu queue ➜ 辮髪
• padded sleeveless kimono jacket; Japanese vest (often for children) ➜ ちゃんちゃんこ

noun:

• small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

noun:

• Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli)
• any rodent of subfamily Arvicolinae (incl. voles, lemmings and muskrats)

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants

noun:

• Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)

noun:

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

noun:

• Japanese curry with an additional topping (e.g. shredded beef, hayashi-rice sauce, etc.)

noun:

• stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki); stagehand; prompter
• behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

expression:

• small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the North; Tang-period Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 669 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Western Regions; Han-period Chinese office established in East Turkestan in 60 BCE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Central Asian Nomadic Lands; Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 650 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• SuperBall scooping; festival game in which one scoops up rubber bouncy balls floating in water ➜ 金魚掬い

expression / noun:

• fiscal cliff; sharp decline in the United States budget deficit that could have occurred beginning in 2013

noun / ~の noun:

• first place; first rank; unit's position ［いちい］

noun:

• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) - usu. イチイ, also 櫟 - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)

noun:

• Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character)