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• Japanese variety of music box (invented in 1892 by Toda Kindo)

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• spoken English

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• Japanese wing nut (Pterocarya rhoifolia)

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• Japanese horse mussel (Modiolus nipponicus)

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

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• Japanese egg cockle (Fulvia mutica)

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• non-Japanese celebrity; foreigner celebrity - abbreviation ➜ 外国人タレント

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• Japanese rhodea (plant of the lily family); Rhodea japonica

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• Japanese drum

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• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) ➜ 一位
• wild rocambole (Allium grayi) - archaism ➜ 野蒜

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• Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes); killifish; Japanese medaka

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• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄

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• imitation Japanese vellum

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• Japanese geoduck (Panopea japonica)

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• Japanese pond smelt (Hypomesus nipponensis)

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• Japanese white birch oil ➜ 白樺

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• Japanese Pharmacopeia - abbreviation ➜ 日本薬局方

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• Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is ➜ 先勝【せんしょう】・友引【ともびき】・先負【せんぶ】・仏滅【ぶつめつ】・大安【たいあん】・赤口【しゃっこう】

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• rolled Japanese-style omelette - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 出し巻き卵

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• Japanese common squid; Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) ➜ 鯣烏賊
• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta) ➜ 甲烏賊
• Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica) ➜ 尻焼烏賊

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• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

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• wild Japanese apricot ➜ 梅【うめ】

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• native Japanese horse

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• First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895) - abbreviation ➜ 日清戦争

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• separating words in Japanese with spaces (e.g. in kana-only books for children) - Linguistics term