noun:

• five ranks of nobility (in Japan, 1868-1946) ➜ 五等爵・公爵【こうしゃく】・侯爵【こうしゃく】・伯爵【はくしゃく】・子爵【ししゃく】・男爵【だんしゃく】

noun:

• Chimaera owstoni (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark found in Japan)

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)

noun:

• influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan) ➜ 韓流

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

noun:

• school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)

noun:

• influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan) - From Chinese "hualiu" ➜ 韓流

noun:

• Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group) - sensitive ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• Trimma grammistes (species of small goby found in Japan and Taiwan)

noun:

• Kansai region (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka)

noun:

• reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)

noun:

• movement to overthrow the shogunate (mid-19th century Japan)

noun:

• southern Japanese hemlock (species of conifer native to Japan, Tsuga sieboldii)

noun:

• adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority

noun:

• Transportation Corps (Service branch of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ➜ 輜重兵

noun:

• Meiji Constitution (Constitution of the Empire of Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 大日本帝国憲法

noun:

• (as used in Northern Japan) greenling ➜ 鮎魚女
• (as used in Kochi and surrounds) medaka ricefish ➜ 目高

noun:

• annexation of Korea (by Japan; 1910-1945)

noun / ~する noun:

• postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post) ➜ 郵政民営化

noun:

• Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes, species found mostly from Japan to Taiwan) ➜ オリエンタルバタフライフィッシュ

noun:

• purple chimaera (Hydrolagus purpurescens, species of cartilaginous fish found in Japan and the Hawaiian Islands)