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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs; ritsuryล system)
opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)
black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
boy
evolute
Shลwa Day (national holiday; April 29)
paper umbrella (with a bull's-eye design)
depending on ...
to shake one's head (in disagreement)
male genitalia
scanning surface
national health insurance
Ochromonas vischeri (species of golden alga)
special viewing platform (even higher viewing platform)
sickness insurance
to remember
absorption (in an activity)
postal life insurance
anisotropic
Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies, etc.
Asian countries with alleged strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea)
don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility)
X-ray (photography)
government-managed health insurance
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)
tongue worm (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)
Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
hemichordate (any worm of phylum Hemichordata)
voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)
flat-topped burial mound