noun:

• Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus) ➜ アメリカザリガニ

noun:

• ginger (Zingiber officinale) - esp. 薑 - archaism ➜ 生薑
• Japanese pepper (Zanthoxylum piperitum) - esp. 椒 ➜ 山椒

noun:

• Japanese Internet Domain Registration Service; JPRS - IT term

noun:

• Japanese addressing system (district-block-lot)
• displayed address - IT term

noun:

• wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice ➜ 蝋梅

noun:

• cuckoo, Japanese bush warbler & wagtail - archaism
• chicken, goose & pheasant - Food term

noun:

• Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum)

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• K-1 (Japanese kick-boxing promotion)

noun:

• ancient Japanese coinage first minted in 760 CE

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii); mamushi pit-viper ➜ 蝮

noun:

• Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot ➜ 今川焼き

noun:

• mythical Japanese hominid (similar to yeti or Bigfoot)

noun:

• Japanese staunton-vine (Stauntonia hexaphylla)

noun:

• Japanese domestic market (esp. for automobiles); JDM

noun:

• 16th-century Jesuit-founded Japanese college - From Portuguese "collegio"

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 17.5cm by 25cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】

noun:

• Japanese containing expressions literally translated from European languages

noun:

• traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry
• to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on
• to have a trace of; to be tinged with ➜ 赤味を帯びた【あかみをおびた】

noun:

• twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study - colloquialism ➜ 為る【する】
• to send; to dispatch; to despatch
• to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.)
• to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer
• to make (a vehicle) go faster
• to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise
• to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke
• to hold (a performance); to perform; to show ➜ 演る
• to ease (one's mind)
• to harm; to injure; to kill - colloquialism ➜ 殺る
• to have sex with - slang ➜ 犯る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to get by; to get along ➜ やって行く・やって来る

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely - after the -masu stem of a verb, often in the negative
• to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance - after the -masu stem of a verb

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance) - after the -te form of a verb
• to make active efforts to ... - after the -te form of a verb

expression:

• victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm - four character idiom

adverbial noun / noun:

• avenue; street; way; road
• coming and going; street traffic
• flow (of water, air, etc.)
• transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
• fame; reputation; popularity
• the same status or way; as (e.g. as expected, as I said)
• understanding; comprehension

counter:

• counter for sets of things; counter for methods, ways, types