noun:

• calligraphy technique of holding the brush perpendicularly, lower arm raised, and elbow held away from the body ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】・懸腕

adverb:

• increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

noun:

• brick and mortar business; bricks and mortar business; physical retail store (rather than online)

noun:

• one's opinion on life and death; life-and-death issue (e.g. in religion)

noun:

• Japanese national (esp. one living overseas) ➜ 外人【がいじん】
• fellow countryman

noun:

• enka; traditional-style Japanese popular ballad
• troubadour ［艶歌］

noun:

• Japanese grosbeak (Eophona personata)

noun:

• Naporitan; Napolitan; Japanese spaghetti dish made with ketchup - From French "napolitain"

noun:

• guiding marks for rendering classical Chinese into Japanese

noun:

• Japanese mustard spinach (Brassica rapa var. perviridis)

noun:

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

noun:

• square bracket; Japanese-style quotation marks

noun:

• fatsi (Fatsia japonica); paperplant; Japanese aralia

noun:

• kaya (Torreya nucifera); Japanese nutmeg tree

noun:

• traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden

noun:

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

noun:

• cloth made from kudzu (Japanese arrowroot) fiber (fibre)

noun:

• wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice

noun:

• lion mask ［ししがしら］
• Japanese deer fern (Blechnum nipponicum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• old Japanese court music from the Nara period ➜ 高麗楽

noun:

• old Japanese court music from the Nara period ➜ 右方高麗楽

noun:

• Japanese linden (Tilia japonica)

noun:

• Japanese pond smelt (Hypomesus nipponensis)

noun:

• Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot

noun:

• Japanese sand lance (Ammodytes personatus); Pacific sandeel