noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌

noun:

• barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta); Japanese millet; sanwa millet

noun:

• Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus)
• mallotus bark (herbal medicine)

noun:

• two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets of paper - ateji for "ream"; also written as 嗹
• stanza; verse - also written as 聯
• tribe (in taxonomy) - Biology term
• quinella; quiniela - abbreviation ➜ 連勝式

suffix noun:

• party; company; group; set

counter:

• counter for things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc. - also written as 聯
• counter for falcons - obsolete term

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis); silver grass; zebra grass

noun:

• magnolia (Magnolia obovata); Japanese big leaf magnolia

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

noun / suffix noun:

• quotient - Mathematics term ➜ 積
• dealing; dealer; store
• second degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Shang (dynasty of China) ➜ 殷

noun:

• reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual ➜ 入門書
• textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook) - original meaning

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• seven delicious flavors (flavours)
• blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.); shichimi - abbreviation ➜ 七味唐辛子

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• juvenile Japanese sea perch (usu. 2-3 years in age and 40-60 cm in length) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• var. of fresh Japanese sweet made of white bean paste, egg yolk, sugar and rice granules

noun:

• Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto) - Buddhism term ➜ 和讃【わさん】・来迎【らいごう】

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• adjectival noun (Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- and tari-adjective - Linguistics term

noun:

• adjectival noun (Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- and tari-adjective - part of speech tag used in dictionaries - abbreviation - Linguistics term ➜ 形容動詞

noun:

• intimacy; closeness; friendliness
• close relative

prefix noun:

• pro- (e.g. pro-American, pro-Japanese, etc.) ➜ 親米・親アラブ

noun:

• washi tape; Japanese masking tape; craft paper-backed tape - From English "craft tape" ➜ 和紙

noun:

• paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern