Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved);  Japanese bladed weapon
 Japanese person;  Japanese people
 set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryōiki
 Japan's best;  number one in Japan
 military of the Empire of Japan
 history of Japan;  Japanese history
 all-Japan;  all-Japan championships;  (Japanese) national championships
 Nihon Shoki;  Nihongi;  Chronicles of Japan
 Japanese style;  Japanesque;  Japanism
 Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)
 Japanese style;  Japanese fashion
 Japanese writing;  Japanese text
 Japanese representative;  Japanese delegate;  Japanese delegation
 all over Japan;  throughout Japan
 western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
 Japanese citizen;  Japanese citizens
 the Japanese;  Japanese side;  Japanese delegation;  Japanese representatives
 Japanese food;  Japanese meal
 made in Japan;  Japanese-made
 first (of its kind) in Japan
 eastern Japan (usu. east of the Chūbu region)
 Japanese-style garden;  traditional Japanese landscape garden
 Japan time;  Japan Standard Time;  JST
 one of Japan's foremost;  leading in Japan
 Japanese company (business, firm)
 Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands);  mainland Japan
 traditional Japanese dance
 Japanese nationality;  Japanese citizenship
 Japanization;  Japanisation
 Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)
 Japanese style;  Japanese model;  Japanese way
 Japanese record;  national record
 Japanese car;  car of Japanese make
 northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)
 Japan Sea coastal areas;  Sea of Japan coastal areas
 Japanese dog breed (e.g. Shiba, Akita)
 Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
 Japan's three famous sights
 Japan hand (someone very knowledgeable about Japan)
 Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996)
 Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica)
 traditional Japanese swimming
 Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
 Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus)
 southern Japan (usu. referring to Kyushu and southwards)
 northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
 Japanese character (i.e. kana, kanji)
 Nippon Kempo;  Nihon Kempo;  Japanese martial art
 Japanese studies;  Japanology
 Nippon Decimal Classification;  Nippon Decimal System (of book classification)
 southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
 fuck Japan;  drop dead, Japan
 Pacific Ocean coastal regions of Honshu
 Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)
 Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
 Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan;  group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki
 Democratic Party of Japan
 Oriental blood fluke (Schistosoma japonicum)
 Japanese National Railways (1949-1987)
 The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry;  JCCI
 Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
 Japan Industrial Standards;  JIS
 Japan Current;  Kuroshio Current
 Japan New Party (Japanese political party, 1992-1994)
 Japanese Industrial Standards;  JIS
 Japanologist;  Japan scholar
 Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
 Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
 Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus)
 Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus)
 Japanese education system
 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
 Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii);  mamushi pit-viper
 Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)
 three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)
 Japanese language specialist;  linguist specializing in Japanese
 Japanese toad (Bufo japonicus);  Japanese common toad
 General Council of Trade Unions of Japan
 General Council of Trade Unions of Japan
 Japan Agricultural Standard;  JAS
 Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica)
 Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
 standard tables of food composition in Japan
 Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
 dong dang gui (aromatic herb similar to dong quai, Angelica acutiloba)
 Nihon Ryōiki (Heian period collection of Buddhist stories);  An Account of Miracles in Japan;  Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
 Nihon Ryōiki (Heian period collection of Buddhist stories);  An Account of Miracles in Japan;  Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
 Japanese Sign Language;  JSL
 Japanese badger (Meles meles anakuma)
 Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi)
 Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
 Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
 Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi);  Japanese white-toothed shrew
 Schlegel's Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus);  Japanese gecko
 Japan disease;  perceived inability of Japan to overcome economic stagnation, etc.
 Examination for Japanese University Admission (for international students);  EJU
 Japanism;  Japanese nationalistic ideological movement