Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization o...
using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)
Marketing Information System
thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth
library function
National Information Infrastructure
industrial experimental station
Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations
application software program
Veneridae (family of bivalve molluscs comprising the Venus clams)
object-oriented interface
translocation
explicit addressing
connection oriented
constant bit rate
path prefix
Synchronous Data Link Control
distributed computing
to fix one's hair (hairdo) (esp. if disheveled)
seven emotions (in The Book of Rites: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, desire)
wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan
Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)
sitting between the host and guest of honour at a drinking party (honor)
white shoes (for use during the summer)
cylindrical box used to measure rice
there is unexpected good in what others have left behind
cooking over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning
changeable weather
inverted-type (e.g. shock-absorber)
dozing off in the middle of doing something (esp. in an online chat or during an online game)