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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
Director General of (former) Defence Agency (Defense)
box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)
foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period)
dying in a fit of anger or indignation
smuggling oneself into a country
handing over (of a right, property, etc.)
blind acceptance
New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction
untrodden peak
deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades)
getting slightly intoxicated and humming a tune
main road
failed attempt (at a crime, suicide, etc.)
simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)
(not even) for a moment
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
physical examination (given at conscription)
spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
point-blank range
albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)
going on one's own or one's own way
gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)
proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)
referral to a committee
hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
artless but attractive in a quaint sense
documentary examination
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)