noun:

• editorial committee member; senior staff writer (newspaper)

noun:

• phrase; clause; basic linguistic unit in Japanese grammar - Linguistics term

noun:

• (Japanese) Civil Proceedings Act (1890, revised in 1926)

noun:

• prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese language (as a school subject in Japan)

noun:

• Japanese bigleaf magnolia bark (used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 朴の木

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Eastern Tottori prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• ancient Japanese coinage first minted in 760 CE

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)

noun:

• Japanese flying squirrel (Pteromys momonga); small Japanese flying squirrel; Japanese dwarf flying squirrel

~する noun:

• shutting yourself out of your car with the key left inside - From English "in key"

noun:

• Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945) ➜ 十五年戦争・太平洋戦争

noun / ~する noun:

• feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report

noun:

• tea-ceremony dishes ➜ 会席料理
• traditional Japanese meal brought in courses

noun:

• hypothetical form (of verbs and adjectives in modern Japanese) - Linguistics term ➜ 已然形【いぜんけい】

noun:

• metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music

noun:

• stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens

noun:

• field cap (used by Japanese troops in WW II)

noun:

• the eight unpardonable crimes in ancient Japanese law - archaism ➜ 十悪

noun:

• Sunday (esp. as the sabbath in early Japanese Christianity) - archaism - From Portuguese "domingo"

noun:

• Hōō Maru (Western-style Japanese frigate, launched in 1853)

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)