noun:

• Asian countries with strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea) - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 特定アジア

noun:

• being-for-others (philosophical term used by Hegel and Sartre (etre-en-soi))

noun:

• box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)

noun:

• mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)

noun:

• thixomolding (plastic and semiconductor industries)

noun:

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

noun:

• Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)

noun:

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

noun:

• sticker for new car drivers (green and yellow) ➜ 若葉マーク

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

noun:

• Emergency Warning System (radio and TV broadcasts); EWS; emergency warning broadcast

noun:

• dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)

noun:

• the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))

noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• MMR vaccine (for measles, mumps and rubella)

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - sometimes ハニ塔 - abbreviation ➜ ハニートースト

noun:

• portable incense burner (ball-shaped and carried in one's clothes)

noun:

• Spanish-Japanese (gen. for translations and dictionaries)

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• shelling (e.g. of eggs, nuts, crabs and such)

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago); Kalabeck's monitor

noun:

• tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side) ➜ ソフト面