noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

noun:

• pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• baby spotted turtle; immature Japanese pond turtle; young Japanese terrapin ➜ 石亀

noun:

• Japanese typewriter; typewriter that can type using Japanese characters

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• Party for Japanese Kokoro (Japanese political party founded by Shintarō Ishihara)

noun:

• black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake ➜ 縞蛇【しまへび】

noun:

• Japanese jack mackerel; Japanese horse mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

noun:

• Japanese company active abroad; company partly funded by Japanese nationals

noun:

• Japan Defense Agency (Defence) (became Japanese Ministry of Defense in Jan. 2007) ➜ 防衛省

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash

noun:

• Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica); Japanese fleeceflower; Mexican bamboo; Polygonum cuspidatum; Reynoutria japonica

noun:

• Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer

noun:

• thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue ➜ 厚様

noun:

• Schlegel's Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus); Japanese gecko

noun:

• wall newspaper; wall poster

noun:

• American press; American newspaper

noun:

• newspaper studies; media studies

noun:

• Japanese sea perch (Lateolabrax japonicus, esp. referring to an adult); Japanese sea bass ➜ 鮬【せいご】・フッコ

noun:

• Japanese inn priding itself on its cuisine; Japanese-style restaurant with an attached inn

noun:

• pillow word (decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature)
• preface; introduction

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• "New Nessie" (unidentified sea creature discovered by Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru in 1977)