one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
root; source; origin; foundation; basis; essence
six (long cylindrical things)
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
direct unforked road; straight path
eight (long cylindrical things)
Japan's best; number one in Japan
military of the Empire of Japan
ten (long cylindrical things)
Japanese representative; Japanese delegate; Japanese delegation
one's own strength and skill alone (without money, connections, etc); nothing to rely on but oneself; (being) self-made
original (document, copy, work, text, etc.); root; origin; source
to score an ippon; to score a full point (in judo, kendo, etc.); to one-up (someone); to defeat (in an argument); to score (against someone)
all of Japan; the whole of Japan; all-Japan; all-Japan championships; (Japanese) national championships; Japan national team
western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
single standard; single base; single-feature show
Japanese citizen; (the) Japanese
NEC (Nippon Electric Company)
touché; you've got me there
eastern Japan (usu. east of the Chūbu region)
first (of its kind) in Japan
single-minded (esp. personality or person); one-track mind
Japanese man (esp. with traditional, masculine values); Japanese manhood
one-armed shoulder throw (judo or sumo)
unification; centralization; integration; drawing things together; working out a common policy; consolidation
Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)
monotone; monotonous; dull; lacking variety
principal; capital; income-producing assets
sticking to one thing (method, principle, objective, etc.); never deviating from; persisting with; one's sole talent; one's only forte
straight-forwardness; honesty; purity
fundamental (basic) principles; fundamentals; ground rules
complimentary copy of a book
Constitution of the Empire of Japan; Meiji Constitution
hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done once); single clap after a cheer
Japan Sinks (1973 novel by Sakyo Komatsu)
Japan Sea coastal areas; Sea of Japan coastal areas
northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)
Japanese dog breed (e.g. Shiba, Akita)
woodblock-printed book; book printed from woodblocks
tall geta with a single tooth
winning by an ippon; winning by a point
Imperial Japanese Army (1872-1945)
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
Japanese government bond; JGB
Japan's three famous sights (Matsushima, Miyajima and Ama-no-Hashidate)
books returned unsold; books returned to the library
official publication; government publication; book belonging to a government office
Japan Socialist Party (1945-1996; succeeded by the Social Democratic Party of Japan); JSP
Japan Broadcasting Corporation; Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai; NHK
published book; printed book
Japanese contingent; Japanese players; Japanese competitors; Japanese companies; Team Japan
Imperial Japanese Navy (1872-1945)
pickle on a stick (usually a cucumber)
one-legged batting stance; raised-foot stance; flamingo stance
Nippon Yusen; NYK Line; Japan Mail Shipping Line
julienne (esp. of daikon); long, thin strips
Nippon Kempo; Nihon Kempo; Japanese martial art
single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral
southern Japan (usu. referring to Kyushu and southwards)
Nippon Ham (meat packing firm)
match in which Japan plays; Japan match; Japan game
one-yen book (Showa period)
silk canvas; artwork on silk
Nippon Express (global logistics provider)
falling below par (value); loss of principal
long stool (that one is able to press out entirely in one go without it getting cut off); (long) sausage-shaped poop; grogan
new book; unused book; newly-published book
politics of the people (democratic theory of Sakuzō Yoshino, 1878-1933)
old woodblock-printed book from the Muromachi period or earlier
existing manuscript; extant copy; manuscript handed down from the past
Japan Business Federation; Keidanren
book in Sanskrit characters (e.g. scripture); book from India
false entry in an officially authenticated document
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
humanism; humanitarianism
Japanese Archaeological Association
Japan Gymnastic Association; JGA
Lepidopterological Society of Japan; LSJ
radical evil (in Kantianism)
Japan Standards Association; JSA
Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan; IMES
Japan Finance Corporation; JFC
relying on one's own resources; being entirely on one's own
Anthropological Society of Nippon
Party for Japanese Kokoro (Japanese political party founded by Shintarō Ishihara)
Japan Ethological Society
Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (martial arts organization; 1895-1946)
fundamental schism (between the early Sthaviravāda and Mahāsāṃghika Buddhist schools)
Seismological Society of Japan
Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
Japan Association of Athletics Federations (abbr); JAAF
Japan Innovation Party; Nippon Ishin no Kai; JIP
Governor of the Bank of Japan
Folklore Society of Japan
Japan Student Services Organization; JASSO
Entomological Society of Japan
Japan Society for Contemporary Music; JSCM
Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Japanese Society for Study of Career Guidance; JSSCG
Kinki Nippon Tetsudō (railway company)
Japan Surgical Association
Japan Library Association
Japan Monopoly Corporation
Nippon Foundation Library
Japan Post Co., Ltd.; JP Post
fundamental reform; dramatic overhaul
Japanese Society of Ningen Dock (formerly Japanese Society of Human Dry Dock)
Japan Women's University (abbr)
Japanese Sign Language; JSL
Population Association of Japan
Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation
Japanese Association of Sign Linguistics
Japan Academy of Dental Human Dock
Japanese Society for Chronobiology
Association of Private Universities of Japan
Japanese Association for Behavior Analysis
Japan Association of Private Law
Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology; JASCA
Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists; JSDB
Japan Society of Human Genetics
Biophysical Society of Japan
Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology; JSSZ
Sinological Society of Japan; SSJ
Japanese Society for Artificial Organs
Japan Electronic Publishing Association
Japan Association for the Study of Local Government
Greater Japan Patriotic Party
Japan Association for Middle East Studies
Japan Society for Child Study
Sessile Organisms Society of Japan; SOSJ
Japan Society of Protozoology
Japan Association for Central Asian Studies; JACAS
Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; JSMEZ
Association of Spoken Japanese for Better Communication
Association of Japanese Geographers
Crop Science Society of Japan; CSSJ
Association of Private Junior Colleges in Japan
Chinese Language Society of Japan
Japanese Society for Plant Systematics; JSPS
Japanese Association of Private Dental Schools
Nippon Kaigi (right-wing lobbying group); Japan Conference
Japanese Society for Public Administration
single-rate tariff (system)
Japan Society for Future Research
Phonetic Society of Japan
Japan Pearl Exporters' Association
Japanese Society of Physical Education
Japan Automobile Importers' Association
Higashi Nippon International University
Japan Association for Modern China Studies
Japan Folk Narrative Recording Society
Japan Society of Developmental Psychology; JSDP
Society of Biological Sciences Education of Japan; SBSEJ
Japanese Association of Behavior Therapy; JABT
Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment; JMC
Japanese Association of Family Psychology; JAFP
Japan Craft Beer Association; JCBA
Japanese Society of Social Psychology; JSSP
Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan
Japan Society for Distributive Sciences; JSDS
Japan Association of Universities of Education
Japanese Society of Pathology
Japan Association of Applied Psychology; JAAP
Japan Society of Youth and Adolescent Psychology
Spina Bifida Association of Japan
Behaviormetric Society of Japan
Japan Sociological Society
Japan Society for Cell Biology; CSF
Japan Society of Neonatology
Japan Ship Exporter's Association
Japanese Society of Parasitology
Japan Iron & Steel Exporters' Association
Japan Society of Transportation Economics
Japan Association for Interpretation Studies; JAIS
Geological Society of Japan
Japan Association for Small Business Studies; JASBS
Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology
Geothermal Research Society of Japan; GRSJ
Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
Japanese Society for Ethics
Japan Medical Publishers Association; JMPA
Nishinippon Institute of Technology
Japan Society of Maternal Health
Japanese Society of Animal Reproduction
Japan Society of Medical Physics; JSMP
Japanese Society of Grassland Science
Musicological Society of Japan; MSJ
Japanese Society for Lichenology; JSL
Physics Education Society of Japan
National Association for the Study of Educational Methods; NASEM
Nippon Urban Management and Local Government Research Association; NUMLGRA
Geodetic Society of Japan
Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
Japanese Headache Society; JHS
Japanese Society of Neurology
International Student Association of Japan
Japan Automatic Merchandising Association
Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
Japan Transactional Analysis Association; JTAA
Japan Public Law Association
Japan Data Communications Association
Japan Society of Colon Examination
Adhesion Society of Japan
Japan Poultry Science Association; JPSA
Japanese Society of Mammalian Ova Research; JSMOR
Japanese Association of Professional Geographers; JAPG
Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; JSIAM
Japanese Society of Animal Nursing
Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
Japanese Society of Soil Zoology
Criminal Law Society of Japan
Phenomenological Association of Japan
Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology
Japan Society for the Study of Education
Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology; JSCE
Japan Health Physics Society
Jeunesses Musicales du Japan
Japanese Society of Small Animal Veterinary Medicine
Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
Japan Reading Association; JRA
Nature Conservation Society of Japan
Japan Society of Family Sociology; JSFS
Japanese Society of Ethnology
Japan Society for Corporate Communication Studies
Japan Educational Administration Society; JEAS
Color Science Association of Japan; CSAJ
Japanese Society of High Technology in Agriculture
Japanese Association for Religious Studies
Japanese Association of Management Accounting
Japan Transportation Association
Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition; JSMPC
Association of Japanese Clinical Psychology
Japanese Psychonomic Society
Japan Academy of Advertising
Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery
Japanese Association of Health Psychology; JAHP
Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies; JSIS
book with reading aids (such as kana or punctuation marks)
Volcanological Society of Japan
Japan Marine Surveyers and Sworn Measurers' Association
Japan Biliary Association
Japan Private School Promotion Foundation
Society of Ambulatory and General Pediatrics of Japan; SAGPJ
Japan Society of Monetary Economics
Rural Life Society of Japan
New Party Nippon (Japanese political party)
Japanese Society of Public Health; JSPH
Genetics Society of Japan; GSJ
Japanese Society for Connective Tissue Research; JSCTR
Peace Studies Association of Japan; PSAJ
Japan Society of Marketing & Distribution; Japan Society of Marketing and Distribution
Japanese Society of Insurance Science
Japanese Association for Cognitive Therapy; JACT
Japan Association for Planning Administration
Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine; JSRM
Japan Society of Engineering Geology; JSEG
Japan Association of Integrated Science and Education
Imaging Society of Japan; ISJ
Japan Society for Urbanology
Japanese Literature Association
Commodity Futures Association of Japan
Society of Packaging Science & Technology, Japan
Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies; JASS
Academic Association for Organizational Science
Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences; JASIAS
English Linguistic Society of Japan
Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education
Japan Society for Educational System and Organization
Japanese Association of Electoral Studies; JAES
Japan Cartographers Association
Japan Statistical Society; JSS
Japan Institute of Navigation
Japanese Political Science Association; JPSA
Japan School Excursion Association
Japanese Society of Farm Work Research; JSFWR
Japanese Society for Wild Silkmoths
Photographic Society of Japan
Japanese Neural Network Society
Japanese Society for Bacteriology
Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing
Ichthyological Society of Japan; ISJ
Combustion Society of Japan
Japan Association for Taiwan Studies; JATS
Japan society of Educational Sociology
Japan Society for the Study of Adult and Community Education; JSSACE
Clay Science Society of Japan
Japanese Society of Hypertension; JSH
Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine
Japanese Society of Sleep Research; JSSR
Japan Evaluation Society; JES
Society of Japan Science Teaching
Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research
Japan Creativity Society; JCS
Malacological Society of Japan; MSJ
Japanese Society of Phycology
Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan
Japanese Society for Theatre Research
Japanese Inflammation Society; Japanese Society of Inflammation
Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) (abbr)
Japan Society of Educational Information
Japanese Association for Tibetan Studies
Japan Photographers Association; JPA
Japanese Society of Chemotherapy
Japan Educational Association
Japanese Society for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy
Japan Rehabilitation Aid Association
Japan Atherosclerosis Society
Japan Society of Anesthesiology
Japanese Breast Cancer Society
Japan Society for Composite Materials
Japanese Music Education Society; JMES
Japan Pediatric Society; JPS
Japan Intellectual Property Association, JIPA
Japan Public Relations Association; JPRA
Japan Outdoor Education Society
Japan Tourism Association; JTA
Japan Association for International Education
Japan Public Health Association
Japanese Society for Immunology; JSI
Japanese Gastric Cancer Association; JGCA
Japan Cultural Association
Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons
Japan Lung Cancer Society
Japanese Society for Mastication Science and Health Promotion
Japanese Society of Diatomology
Japanese Association of Children's Book Publishers
Japan International Education Society; JIES
Japanese Association for the Study of Development Disabilities
Society of Plant Engineers Japan
Japanese Society of Hypnosis
Japanese Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Agricultural Marketing Society of Japan
Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology; JSNP
Japan Society of Chest Diseases
Japanese Society for the Study on Teacher Education; JSSTE
Japanese Society for Integrative Medicine; JIM
Art Education Society of Japan
Japan Association of International Publications; JAIP
Japanese Society of Farm Animal Veterinary Medicine
Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology; JASC
Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing; JARFN
Japan Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; JSAPS
Japan Accounting Association
Japanese Association of Labor Sociology
Japanese Association of Higher Education Research
Japan Society for Science Education
Internal Auditors' Association of Japan
Japan Society of Clinical Pathology
JSME Fluids Engineering Division; JSME-FED
Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies
Japanese Society of Radiation Safety Management; JRSM
Japan Mining Industry Association
Nippon Television Network
Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies
Japan Jewelers Association; JJA
Japan Curriculum Research and Development Association; JCRDA
Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Pharmacology; JACP
Japan Gallery Association; JGA
Japan Association of Medical Informatics; JAMI
Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare; JSSSW
Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery
Japan Environmental Council; JEC
Japan Seaweed Association
Japanese Association of School Health
Japanese Neuro-ophthalmology Society; JANOS
Japanese Society of Mountain Medicine
Japan Moral Education Society
Japan Society of Anti-Aging Medicine
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (defunct)
Rare Earth Society of Japan
Japan Percussion Society; JPS
Japan Music Education Association
Japan Neurosurgical Society
Japan Society of Library and Information Science; JSLIS
Conservative Party of Japan
Japanese Association of Special Education
Japanese Society of Pediatric Radiology
Japan Whaling Association; JWA
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
Japanese Research Association for Community Development
Japan Phototherapy Associations
Japanese Society of Veterinary Public Health
Japan Education Association
Japan English Language Education Society
Japanese Association for the Study of Educational Administration; JASEA
Airline Pilots' Association of Japan; ALPA Japan
Japan Mortgage Association
Japanese Society of Environmental Toxicology
The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Japan Soy-sauce Brewers' Association
Japanese Association for Dental Science
Japanese Society of Pediatric Dentistry; JSPD
Japan Spinners' Association
Japan Association of Home Economics Education
Nihonkai Steamship Co. Ltd.
Japanese Association of Play Therapy
Japanese Red Cross Junior College of Akita
Japan Association for Educational Technology; JAET
Nippon Information and Communication Corporation
Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy; JASEP
Japan Society of Judicial Social Services; JSJSS
Japan Medical Science Exchange Association; JAMSEA
Japan Comparative Education Society; JCES
Japanese Red Cross Akita College of Nursing
Japan Machine Tools Importers' Association; JMTIA
Japanese Red Cross Toyota College of Nursing
Japanese Society for the Study of Human Welfare and Culture
Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing
Japan Society for Heat Treatment
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; NTT
Agricultural Economics Society of Japan; AESJ
Japan Medical Device Industry Excutives Association
Japan Radiation Research Society
Japanese Orthodontic Society; JOS
Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry
Japan Society for Biomedical Gerontology
Farm Management Society of Japan
Japan Academy of Esthetic Dentistry
Japan Society of Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition
Japan Federation of Indoor Cycling; JFIC
Japanese Society for Laboratory Hematology; JSLH
Japan Department Stores Association
Nippon Intellectual Property Translation Association; NIPTA
Japan Society of Clinical Hematology
Japan Folklore Economics Association
Japan Economic Policy Association; JEPA
Japan Dietetic and Enriched Foods Association
Japan Color Research Institute
Japanese Society for the Political Economy of Health and Health Care
Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute
Japan Phosphatic & Compound Fertilizers Manufacturer's Association
Japan Woodworking Machinery Cooperative Association
Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing
Japan Institute of International Affairs
Japanese Society of Medical Instrumentation; JSMI
Japan Healthcare Industry Executives Association
Japan Small-Type Whaling Association; JSTWA
Japan Society of Disaster Nursing; JSDN
Japanese Society for Clinical Surgery
Japan Society for Medical English Education
Japan Association for Comparative Politics; JACP
Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine
Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology
Japanese Association of Mineralogists, Petrologists and Economic Geologists
Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; JASTRO
Japan Society for Lipid Nutrition; JSLN
Japanese Association of Science and Technology for Identification; JASTI
Japan Guide-dog Association
Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology
Japan Freight Railway Company
Japanese Society for Education of Young Children; JSEYC
Japan Institute of Social Services and Informatics
Japan Prosthodontic Society
Japan Economic Research Institute; JERI
Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesiology
Japanese Society of Clinical Nutrition
Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia
Japan Medical Library Association; JMLA
League of Japan Abacus Associations
Japan Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Japan Vehicle Inspection Association; VIA
Japanese Association for Developmental and Comparative Immunology; JADCI
Japan Shiatsu College; JSC
Japan Industrial and Vocational Training Association
Japan Attorneys Pension Fund
Commemorative Association for the Japan World Exposition
Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM
Japan Technology Transfer Association; JTTAS
Japanese Society for Dermatologic Surgery; JSDS
Japanese Society for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; JCAM
Japan Nursing Library Association; JNLA
Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition '70
Japan Society for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation; JSHCT
Japan Ecology Fishing Federation; JFF
Japan Association for Greening Deserts
Japan Educational Theatre Association
Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Japan
Japan Cost Accounting Association
Nippon Photography Institute; NPI
Japan Ophthalmic Instrument Association
Japan Association for the Promotion of English for Children
Japan Health Taijiquan Association
Japan Dentists Federation
Japan Craft Inspection Organization
Japan Juvenile Education College
Japan Welfare Education College
eradication of (sources of) evil; laying the ax to the root of evil
livid pinkgill (species of poisonous mushroom, Entoloma sinuatum)
Japanism; Japanese nationalistic ideological movement