{ "term": "string", "language": "string (Japanese | Korean | Mandarin | Pan-Asian)", "romanization": "string", "literal_translation": "string", "bme_definition": "string", "usage_context": "string", "related_terms": ["string"], "content_references": ["string"], "first_published": "date", "last_updated": "date" }

Gairaigo

Literal Translation
(外来語) Foreign loanwords incorporated into Japanese. Written in katakana. An enormous and continuously expanding category — Japanese absorbs foreign vocabulary at significant scale. If you see katakana, you are almost certainly reading a loanword.