The most likely audience are probably machine learning researchers, because they'd know about the ImageNet ILSVRC classes: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2014/browse-synsets

If you see what appears to be transliterated Japanese and it's not "kimono", you're probably dealing with some kind of animal, like an Agama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_(lizard) or a Basenji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basenji , neither of which are Japanese.