Category:English terms calqued from Japanese

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. Lolita complex
  2. death flag
  3. plum rains
  4. Doctor Yellow
  5. independent mini-nation
  6. mini-independent country
  7. lost decade
  8. reverse bunny suit
  9. fall seven times, stand up eight
  10. grass-eater
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. naked apron
  2. twintail
  3. pillow word
  4. be a hundred years too early
  5. herbivore man
  6. grass-eater
  7. Iga ware
  8. National Diet
  9. dried-fish woman
  10. taco rice

English terms that were calqued from Japanese, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Japanese terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|ja|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.