Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen
merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period
National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China)
national identification number system
heavy and chemical industries
chemical species
death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes)
hiking notification form (registered with the police, etc. before undertaking a hike)
15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)
Euphrasia insignis (species of eyebright)
manpower supplied by designated adult men to government officials, or tax in lieu (ritsuryล system)
law of equal division of rice fields (of ancient China)
thinly sliced salmon head cartilage (also whale etc.)
refusing to budge
study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
to drag down
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
principle of maximum entropy
(pet) owner
it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked
cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)
art works, traditional artifacts and antiques
person who has a romantic preference for older men
persistently bothering someone (for no good reason)
traditional Koshลgatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree
trader who provides cash to debtors by getting them to make expensive credit card purchases and then buying the purchases at a fraction of the price
person who steals money from the workplace
Republic Day
three shrines (usu. in ref. to Ise Grand Shrine, Iwashimizu Hachimangลซ and Kamo Shrine, or Kasuga Grand Shrine)