Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor))
colored thread
fiction writer
pressure regulator
magnetic disk
to gag someone
profound knowledge
House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution)
counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars
to affect
circular notice (esp. in binder form; passed around households within a neighbourhood association, etc.)
suspected case (of a disease)
court rank and honors
the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927)
vanishing like mist
memorial service
person who is ready to comment on every subject
exchange professor
rice boiled with soy sauce and sake
Japan Self-Defense Forces
anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed)
thrift
unaffected and sincere, with fortitude and vigor (vigour)
outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade)
Lorentz contraction
magnetization
tactical air control center (centre)
ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)
Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)