NounJapan Cup

NounJapan House

NounJapan premiere (of a movie, etc.)

NounJapan Energy Corporation

NounJapan Times (newspaper)

NounJapan Knowledge

NounJapan bashing

NounJapan Rail Pass; JR Pass

NounJapan Chronicle (daily newspaper; 1891-1940)

NounJapan Society

NounJapan Platform (Japanese emergency relief NGO)

Noungod; deity; divinity; spirit; kami · god-tier; incredible; fantastic; amazing · Emperor (of Japan)

Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Nouncommon; ordinary; usual; average; normal · fair (e.g. fight); gracious; honorable · frank; open; tame; ready

Nounrailway station; train station · staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan) · counter for railway stations and bus stations

Nouncountry; state · region · national government; central government

Noununiversity; college · former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators) · the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

Nounyen (currency of Japan) · circle

Prefixold; former; ex- · the old; old things; old customs · old times; bygone days

Noun, Noun, used as a suffixprefecture (of Japan); county (of China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (of France); province (of Italy, Spain, etc.)

Noun, Noun, used as a suffixstate (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); county (e.g. of the UK); region (e.g. of Italy); canton; oblast · continent · province (of Japan)

Nouncapital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government · capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light) · location of the Imperial Palace

NounSunday · nth day (of the month) · counter for days

Nounpresent day; modern times; recent times · early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

NounNational Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-) · Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947) · legislative assembly; parliament; congress

Nounnational language · Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan) · one's native language; mother tongue

Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'used; second-hand; old · Middle Ages (in Japan esp. Heian period)

Noun, Adverb (fukushi)daytime; during the day · Japan and China; Japanese-Chinese; Sino-Japanese

NounJapan

Noun(East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July) · rain during the rainy season

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'old person; elderly person; senior citizen · trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay · senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)

NounEast Asian lacquer; japan · Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, formerly Rhus verniciflua)

Nounsurname; family name · hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)

Nounemperor (of Japan); mikado · (the gates of an) imperial residence

Nounsum · harmony; peace · Japan; Japanese-style

Nounsecurity (e.g. national security) · US-Japan Security Treaty · campaign against the Japan-US Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970)

Nounreformation; revolution; renewal · Meiji Restoration · Japan Innovation Party; Nippon Ishin no Kai

NounEmishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan · Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands

NounChina and Japan · Chinese and Japanese (languages) · dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary

NounKansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures) · Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)

NounKantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures) · Kantō (eastern half of Japan; during the feudal era)

NounJapan's old (lunisolar) calendar

Nounkyōtei; boat race; hydroplane racing event and gambling sport in Japan

Nounrecent past; recent times · early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)

NounKyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

NounImperial Palace (of Japan); imperial residence

Nounnational railway · Japan National Railways (1949-1987)

NounKuroshio Current; Japan Current

Noun or verb acting prenominally, Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbresident in Japan (of a foreigner); situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy) · Zainichi; Zainichi Korean; North or South Korean national with permanent residency in Japan (who came to the country before 1945, or a descendant of such a person)

NounHouse of Councillors (upper house of the National Diet of Japan)