noun:

• cloth (for Japanese clothes); textile; drapery; dry goods; piece goods
• silk fabrics ➜ 太物

noun:

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

noun:

• nai stem (of a Japanese verb or adjective); irrealis form; imperfective form - Linguistics term

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:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom ➜ 天に唾する【てんにつばする】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to accidentally be visible (in a play, TV show, etc.)
• to be partly cut off (in a photo, video, etc.); to be partly in the frame

adjectival noun / adverb / noun:

• direct; in person; frankness; honesty; simplicity; cheerfulness; correctness; being straight
• night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory) ➜ 当直

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

expression:

• mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

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