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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family
to bring to an end
acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
Invasion of Ryukyu (by the Satsuma-based Shimazu clan; 1609)
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952)
spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii)
horn-rimmed glasses
large bathhouse with many different services
Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.)
governor of a feudal domain (1869-1871)
demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo)
to have one's enthusiasm dampened
protection law
Ryukyuan mission to Edo
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters)
pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)
to ask
pyrrhotite
hemimorphite
haรผyne
social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family
potato bean (Apios americana)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)
Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)
reflation
Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity)
Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)