noun:

• railway police (Japan); Railway Police Force

noun:

• Vice-Admiral (Maritime Self-Defence Force of Japan) (defense)

noun:

• quidditch (fictional sport from Harry Potter series)

noun:

• elementary school (in an educational system operated in Japan between 1941 and 1947)

noun:

• pearl-spot chromis (Chromis notata, species of damselfish found in southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and China)

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】

noun:

• Izu cat shark (Scyliorhinus tokubee, species found in Japan)

noun:

• sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries) - archaism
• noh ［さるがく］ ➜ 能楽
• fooling around ［さるごう］

noun:

• Records of Ancient Matters (Japan's oldest historical record)

noun:

• Yamato-e (classical Japan decorative paintings)

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) - archaism ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】
• shoots of this plant

noun:

• Thalassoma cupido (commercially cultured type of wrasse in Japan)

noun:

• fire balloon (experimental weapon launched by Japan during World War II); balloon bomb

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• foreign religion (from Japan's perspective, esp. Christianity) ［がいきょう］
• religion other than Buddhism - esp. げきょう - Buddhism term Antonym: 内教

noun / ~する noun:

• postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)

noun:

• cold political relations but hot economical relations (often said about China-Japan relations)

noun:

• Eviota abax (species of pygmy goby ranging from Southern Japan to Hainan Is.)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

noun:

• (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・仲呂
• (in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G ➜ 呂旋・六調子

noun:

• dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)

noun:

• Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924)

noun:

• Eviota ocellifer (species of pygmy goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan)

noun:

• (in Japan) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 十二律・林鐘

noun:

• occupation period (e.g. post-WWII period during which the Allies occupied Japan)