league; federation; union
allied nation; ally; Central Powers (in WWI)
joining (an association, agreement, etc.); participation; affiliation; accession
oath; pledge; pact; covenant; alliance
member nation; member state; signatory
leader (of an alliance); leading power
Diet members caucus; caucus of the Diet
alliance; aimag; league; administrative subdivision in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia
FIFA; Fédération Internationale de Football Association; International Federation of Football Association
participating store; participating merchant; member store; franchise store; franchisee
Japan Association of Athletics Federations; JAAF
Japan Swimming Federation
Japan High School Baseball Federation
All Japan Judo Federation
member countries (e.g. treaty, UN, etc.); member states
United Nations member; UN member state
member state of the European Union; EU country
International Association of Athletics Federations; IAAF
blood pledge; oath signed in blood
International Swimming Federation; FINA
International Table Tennis Federation; ITTF
International Gymnastics Federation
British Iron and Steel Federation
Christian Democratic Union (Germany); Christian Democrats; CDU
Petroleum Association of Japan; PAJ
non-member state; non-member nation
International Judo Federation; IJF
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923)
Satchō Alliance; 1866 alliance between the feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū
Legan Lombarda; northern-based opposition alliance; Northern Alliance
League of Blood (1930s ultranationalist Japanese terrorist organization)
Japan Amateur Baseball Association
non-alignment; nonalignment
league; federation; union
Japanese Federation of the Deaf; JFD
Japan Dentists Federation
offensive and defensive alliance
capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion
All Japan High School Athletic Federation
Holy Alliance (of Russia, Austria and Prussia in 1815)
International Sports Federation
concluding an alliance; making a pledge
All Japan Kendo Federation
association formed to carry out an objective
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
Grand Alliance (against France)
trial by hot water; putting a person's hand in boiling water to determine their guilt or innocence (with the belief that the innocent would not be scalded)
signatory (country); party (to a treaty)
Federation equestre internationale
Confederation of the Rhine (1806-1813)
forming an alliance; conclusion of a treaty of alliance
Milk Tea Alliance (online democratization solidarity movement)
Delian League (the Athenian empire)
Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)
Japan High School Baseball Federation
Federation Aeronautique Internationale; International Aeronautical Federation; FAI
principle of nonalignment; nonalignment policy
Revolutionary Communist League
Social War (91-87 BC); Marsic War; Italic War
Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)
student strike; school strike
International League for Human Rights
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
Japanese Confederation of Labor (1936-1939); Zensō; Japanese Confederation of Labor (1964-1987); Dōmei
The Federation of Music Producers Japan
Federation Internationale de l'Automobile; FIA
Japanese Association of Religious Organizations
International Cycling Union; UCI
ShorinjiKempo Federation Foundation
Licensed Agency for Relief of Asia (LARA)
capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion
Japanese Federation of the Deaf; JFD
labor federation; labour federation
producer-retailer alliance
(European) Economic and Monetary Union; EMU
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
War of the Grand Alliance; War of the League of Augsburg
trial by hot water; putting a person's hand in boiling water to determine their guilt or innocence (with the belief that the innocent would not be scalded)
League of the Three Emperors (1873-1887)
alliance; state of alliance
Pan-Blue Coalition (Taiwan political bloc)
Pan-Green Coalition (Taiwan political bloc)
Central Baseball Organization
Pacific League of Professional Baseball Clubs
Federation of International Musicians
International Federation of Accountants; IFAC
International Union of Students
International Co-operative Alliance
International Kendo Federation
Association of International Instructors; AII; US YMCA diving education system founded 1959
Federation Dentaire Internationale
International Federation of Automatic Control
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; IFLA
International Federation of Red Cross
International Federation of the Red Cross; IFRC
International Sumo Federation (highest body in amateur sumo)
International Democratic Union
International Dairy Federation
World Federation of United Nations Associations
British Equestrian Federation
World Anti-Communist League
World Fellowship of Buddhists
Union Economique et Monetaire Ouest Africane
Japan Petroleum Development Association
National Wildlife Federation
Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment
Diet members caucus supporting small business
Japan Educational Theatre Association
Japan Tourist Hotel Association
Japan Education Association
Japan Federation of Indoor Cycling; JFIC
League of Japan Abacus Associations
Japan Ecology Fishing Federation; JFF
Federation of American Hospitals; FAH
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Maritime Promotion Federation
Japan Federation of Employers' Associations
Haibane Renmei (2002 anime series)
Japanese Federation of Mental Health and Welfare
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Shindo Renmei (Japanese terrorist group active in Brazil in the 1940s)
Association of Korean Residents in Japan
Japanese Confederation of Labor (1964-1987) (abbr); Dōmei
National Trade Union Confederation (1930-1936)