noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

• Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

noun:

• three countries
• Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220-280) ➜ 魏【ぎ】・蜀【しょく】・呉【ご】
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE - 668 CE) ➜ 新羅【しらぎ】・百済【くだら】・高句麗【こうくり】

noun:

• your native country; your hometown - honorific language
• my home country (i.e. Japan) - polite language
• countryside; country
• daimyo's territory (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• security (e.g. national security) - abbreviation ➜ 安全保障
• US-Japan Security Treaty - abbreviation ➜ 日米安全保障条約
• campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970) - abbreviation ➜ 安保闘争

noun:

• Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture
• (ancient) Japan

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• Japanese ➜ 大和絵・大和魂

noun:

• library ➜ 図書館【としょかん】
• book series ➜ 叢書
• library (software, modules, images, etc.) - often ライブラリ - IT term

noun:

• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• god; deity; divinity; spirit; kami

noun / prefix noun:

• incredible; fantastic - also written ネ申 - slang

noun:

• "emperor of Japan" [figurative] - honorific language - archaism
• thunder - archaism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• daytime; during the day

noun:

• Japan and China ［にっちゅう］

noun:

• self-defence force; self-defense force
• Japan Self-Defence Force; JSDF

noun / ~する noun:

• holding a course (of lectures); offering a course
• beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course

noun:

• within the borders of a country; domestic soil
• inland area
• Japan proper, as opposed to its overseas colonies; interior of country; homeland - used during the WWII era
• (in Hokkaido and Okinawa) the "mainland" parts of Japan (Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu)

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods

noun:

• electronic mail service; e-mail service; electronic mail system; e-mail system ➜ 電子メール
• letter facsimile service operated by Japan Post ➜ レタックス

noun:

• Eastern Orthodox Church ➜ ハリストス
• Japan Orthodox Church

noun:

• country - honorific language
• Japan - honorific language

noun:

• sherry

noun / ~の noun:

• series; serial music - Music term - From French "série"

noun:

• J; j
• Japan Professional Football League - abbreviation - colloquialism

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

interjection:

• yes ➜ はい

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan

noun:

• road; path; street; route - abbreviation ➜ 道【みち】
• way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself ➜ 道【みち】
• Buddhist teachings
• Taoism
• modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
• historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
• province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
• province (modern administrative region of Korea)