mora

For instance, the transliteration of "ice", as in "ice cream", would be three mora: "a" "i" "su".

I don't know if it's my imagination, but the leading mora of 東京 sounds much closer to 藤 than it does to 遠い or 十日.

I'm not aware of any words beginning with ん, it's usually placed between two other morae.

In Roman Law tradition this kind of action would apparently be called "periculum in mora".

If the following mora begins with a stop, it acts as a nasalization of that stop, similar to English n in "blank" vs. "bland".

Their phonetic intuition is mostly based on "mora" and many find the notion of syllable confusing and inconsistent.

When having violent diarrhea I sometimes trash my arms around, or move my torso a lot. Would I get sprayed with water and subjected to public humiliation, mora than it already is having to shit in a public toilet?

Strictly speaking, Japanese is moraic, in that it divides the rhythm of speech into units potentially smaller than a "conventional" syllable.