neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
research institute; (research) laboratory
counter for places (offices, facilities, stations)
clinic; medical office; infirmary
bathroom antechamber; dressing room; sink area; changing room (at a bathhouse, swimming pool, etc.)
toilet; lavatory; water closet; restroom; bathroom
sleeping place; bedroom; bedchamber
shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place
housing facility; detention facility; internment camp; prisoner-of-war camp; concentration camp; refugee camp
large household; large family; large group (of people); big organization; great wealth
meeting place; assembly hall
neighborhood nuisance; neighbourhood nuisance
branch office; agency; sub-branch
health care center; health care centre; animal shelter
check station; checkpoint
marriage agency; matrimonial agency; matchmaking service
shipyard; dock yard; shipbuilding yard
police cell; place of detention; jail
press; print shop; printing office
consultation office; information center; bureau; agency
child consultation center; children's welfare center
detective agency; enquiry agency
(cargo) depot; (garbage) collection site; (ammunition) dump
training institute; school; driving school
smoking area; smoking corner
nursery school; day care center; day nursery
observatory; observation post
branch office; police box; local police station
interaction with one's neighbors; relationship with one's neighbors
neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood; neighbourhood
recreation facility (usu. corporate-owned and for the exclusive use of the corporation's employees); rest home; retreat center
publishing house; publishing office
storage center; deposit; depository; repository; warehouse
public lavatory; public toilet; public restroom; slut; whore; floozy
prisoner-of-war camp; POW camp
factory; manufactory; works; mill
lookout post; observation point
unattended sales place; vending machine
place of enshrinement; morgue; mortuary
science institute; scientific laboratory
tollgate; tollbooth; tollhouse
landing place (e.g. for steamers); station (e.g. bus); terminal
congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties
securities exchange; stock exchange; bourse
lobby; lounge; recreation room; break room
clearing house; clearinghouse; (currency) exchange; bureau de change
distribution center; distribution centre
technical research institute; technology research laboratory
currency exchange counter; bureau de change
tourist information center; tourist information centre
guard station; guard house; guard post
female household; household consisting wholly of women
polling place; polling station
public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)
employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
garbage collection site; trash disposal area
Public Employment Security Office
small scale; small family
weather measurement station
institute for general research; multidiscipline laboratory
toilet sandals; bathroom sandals
public lavatory; sexually promiscuous woman
comfort women brothel (during World War II); military brothel
having lunch in a toilet cubicle by oneself
economic research institute
neighbourhood dispute (neighborhood); neighbourhood quarrel; grievance with one's neighbour
(letterpress) printing house
toilet insect; insects that frequent toilets
designated evacuation shelter
pachinko prize exchange shop; shop where pachinko prizes are exchanged for money
Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)
training school; training institute
carpentry shop; woodworking plant; sawmill
turnout (on a highway); lay-by; passing-place; shelter; refuge
holy of holies; sanctum sanctorum
Tokyo Stock Exchange; TSE
immediate neighborhood; immediate neighbourhood
Institute of Infectious Diseases
gas station; petrol station; filling station; service station; fuel depot
subject and object; activity and passivity
National Institute of Infectious Diseases; NIID
probation office; probation facility
steelworks; steel mill; steelmaking plant
garbage collection site; trash disposal area
publishing house (esp. state-run)
National Institute for Physiological Sciences; NIPS
temple; shrine (esp. one at which worshippers pray for favors); prayer hall
detention or internment camp
shelter (for buses); waiting area; waiting room
prisoner-of-war camp; POW camp
Pasteur Institute; Institut Pasteur
toilet (from which night-soil may be collected)
Judicial Research and Training Institute
Historiographical Institute (University of Tokyo)
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; NINJAL; Kokken
National Institute of Health Sciences; NIHS
New York Stock Exchange; NYSE
inspection station; inspection centre
outhouse; privy; non-flushing toilet
service point; agency; office
(federal) Supreme Court (US, Brazil, etc.); High Court (Australia)
new household (e.g. after marriage); new home
outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy
mental functions; mental factors; mental states
Meteorological Research Institute
transmitting station (e.g. for TV)
Nomura Research Institute; NRI
Jet Propulsion Laboratory; JPL
portable toilet; porta-potty; portaloo
leper colony; leprosarium
sex-trade information kiosk; (lit.) free information kiosk
workshop; Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies); Edo-period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)
Agricultural Research Administration; Agricultural Research Institute
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan; IMES
animal quarantine station
National Cancer Institute (US); NCI
National Institute on Aging
National Institute of Nutrition
newsagent's shop that exclusively sells newspapers from a particular newspaper company
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine
National Institute of Fruit Tree Science; NIFTS
toilet; lavatory; quiet place
Public Employment Security Office; PESO
National Aerospace Laboratory; NAL
Atomic Energy Research Institute
storage center for impounded bicycles and motorcycles
Electro-Technical Laboratory; ETL
evacuation shelter for people who require additional care (e.g. the elderly and disabled)
National Institute for Educational Research
Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living
toilet god; guardian deity of the privy
Institute for Environment and Health; IEH
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Institute of Astronomy; IoA
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; NINJAL; Kokken
extermination camp; death camp
experimental fishery station
work or vocational center (centre)
Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Building Research Institute
Institute for Personnel and Development
Institute of Population Problems
primary evacuation shelter (for initial use in emergencies)
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute; JAERI
Japan Automobile Research Institute; JARI
Institute for Molecular Science
Tōhoku University Research Institute of Electrical Communication; RIEC
immigration detention center
Research Center for Human Resource and Technology
Shanghai Stock Exchange; SSE
Japan Credit Rating Agency
Osaka Securities Exchange
Central Institute for Experimental Animals
animal shelter; (dog) pound
Research Institute for Publications
Joint Nuclear Research Institute
UN University Institute of Advanced Studies; UNU-IAS
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute; KAERI
Japan Color Research Institute
Japan Institute of International Affairs
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; IMPCAS
Japan Economic Research Institute; JERI
Institute of Fluid Science Tōhoku University; IFS
Hokkaido Wildlife Laboratory
Shanghai Institute for International Studies
Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo
welfare workshop; collaborative workshop
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
World Federation of Exchanges
National Institute of Crop Science
National Institute of Informatics; NII
Japan Institute of Management
Electronic Navigation Research Institute
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse; NIDA
National Institute of Polar Research; NIPR
Communications Research Laboratory; CRL
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; CSEAS
Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University; DPRI
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology; KRIBB
switching station; switchyard
UN Research Institute for Social Development
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; NIEHS
Osaka National Institute, AIST
National Research Institute of Fisheries Science
Tokyo Metropolitan Res. Lab. of Public Health
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Institute for Future Technology
Urban Life Research Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
National Institute of Special Education; NISE
National Food Research Institute
National Institute for Leprosy Research
National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology; NIBH
National Policy Research Institute; NPRI
Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials; IMRAM
National Institute of Environmental Pollution Research (pn)
National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
Traffic Safety and Nuisance Research Institute
Keio Economic Observatory; KEO
World Institute for Development Economics Research
frequency-changer station; frequency converter station
Sea water Science Research Laboratory
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials
Fuji Research Institute Corporation
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute of Industrial Safety
Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Minato, Tokyo)
Institute for Information and Communications Policy; IICP
National Tax Tribunal (Japan)
Shenzhen Stock Exchange; SZSE
National Institute for Educational Policy Research
operations center (railway, power plant, etc.); control room
National Institute of IndustrialHealth
International Institute for Management Development; IMD
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited; HKE
British Market Research Bureau
Distribution Economics Institute of Japan
National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research
Institute of Earth Education
Industrial Research Institute, Japan
Institute of International Education in London; IIEL
Institute for National Policy Research
National Research Institute of Brewing
International Institute for Environment and Development
National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management; NILIM
cryptocurrency exchange; crypto exchange; digital currency exchange
UN Institute for Disarmament Research
Weights and Measures Training Institute
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Japan Classic Literature Research Institute
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Educational Research and In-Service Training
passenger information office; tourism office
World Resources Institute
National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Institute of International Trade and Industry
Bureau of Personnel Administration
Forest Training Institute
traveling clinic; travelling clinic
National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute; IPGRI
Social Development Research Institute
Higher Education Research Institute
International Institute for Educational Planning
National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Korean Institute of Science and Technology
training institute for teaching staff
Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute
Institute for International Economics
National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering; NRIFE
International Institute of Agriculture
International Food Policy Research Institute; IFPRI
Ishii Tool & Engineering Corporation
site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet
National Institute of Mental Health
Pana-Wave Laboratory (Japanese religious organization)
National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science
International Institute for Labour Study
poverty-stricken household
National Institute of Floricultural Science
National Institute for Rural Engineering
National Institute for Resources and Environment
Japan Institute of Advanced Dentistry; JIAD
Tokoname Ceramic-Art Laboratory
training institute for civil servants
Zeikan Training Institute
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Assets
British Antarctic Survey; BAS
National Research Institute for Metals
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience; NIED
Korea Aerospace Research Institute; KARI
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy; NISTE
automatic tide-gauge station; tidal observatory
Japan Construction Method and Machinery Research Institute
Institute of Developing Economies
National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries; NRIFSF
Ringyou Training Institute
Hiroshima Peace Institute
Kinki Postal Training Institute
Pacific Research Institute
prefectural training institute
evacuation shelter for the elderly or infirm
Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute
Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science (usu. at prefectural or city level)
Institut pour l'etude des methodes de direction de l'entreprise
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences; NIAES
Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Port and Harbour Research Institute
Research Institute of Construction and Economy; RICE
Marubeni Research Institute
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Institute of Natural Medicine
leprosarium; leper colony
Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy; IPTP
Posts and Telecommunications Training Institute
Cosmic Radio-waves Observatory
National Research Institute of Aquaculture; NRIA
Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; PRIMAFF
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory; PMEL
Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science (usu. at prefectural or city level)
Environmental Policy Institute
Health and Welfare Research Institute
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.; TREL
High Court (of Kamakura); Board of Inquiry
excursion spot; getaway; red-light district; brothel