noun:

• standard Japanese name - Biology term

noun:

• overseas Japanese merchant

noun:

• Japanese language school

noun:

• (Japanese) lacquer art

noun:

• (racially) pure Japanese

noun:

• native Japanese horse

noun:

• Japanese bastard; Jap - derogatory term - From Korean "jjokbari"

noun:

• Japanese expat organization

noun:

• Japanese mainlander - Ryūkyū dialect

noun:

• Japanese spotted fever - Medicine term

noun:

• traditional Japanese wedding - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• Japanese sword making

noun:

• Japanese-style management

adjectival noun:

• Japanesque; typically Japanese - From French "japonesque"

noun:

• Japanese-style house

expression / ichidan verb:

• to weigh on a scale
• to weigh up options; to compare pros and cons

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

noun:

• identifying mark (esp. a mark of comradeship)
• mark placed where two pieces of cloth are to be sewn together (or two pieces of wood joined, etc.)
• verification seal; tally ➜ 合い印【あいいん】

noun:

• arriving at the final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); reaching the end of the line

noun:

• mob; crowd of people
• background character (in a manga, anime, etc.); mob (in a video game); non-playable character ［モブ］

noun:

• starting point; beginning; outset
• drawing (e.g. of a bill); issuing; draft; draught
• shaking out
• throw (of dice); toss
• infusion - abbreviation ➜ 振り出し薬

noun:

• fool; oaf; airhead - Kansai dialect
• type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events ［あほだら］ - abbreviation ➜ あほだら経

noun:

• curved wooden support on top of the main beam of a house, now mainly decorative (shape evocates an open-legged frog)