| Japanese merchant vessel | 24 |
| Japanese merchant vessels | 25 |
| Japanese metalers Lost ___ | 26 |
| Japanese middle managers? | 25 |
| Japanese miniature tree | 23 |
| Japanese model since 1989 | 25 |
| Japanese monarch (abbr.) | 24 |
| Japanese monetary subunit | 25 |
| Japanese monetary unit | 22 |
| Japanese money of account | 25 |
| Japanese monitor manufacturer | 29 |
| Japanese monster film: 1957 | 27 |
| Japanese motor company | 22 |
| Japanese motorcycle maker | 25 |
| Japanese movie monster | 22 |
| Japanese musical drama | 22 |
| Japanese musical instrument | 27 |
| Japanese musical instruments | 28 |
| Japanese name for Korea | 23 |
| Japanese name of Japan | 22 |
| Japanese national capital | 25 |
| Japanese national park | 22 |
| Japanese national sport | 23 |
| Japanese natives: Var. | 22 |
| Japanese noodle product | 23 |
| Japanese noodle variety | 23 |
| Japanese novelist Kobo ___ | 26 |
| Japanese outcast class | 22 |
| Japanese P.M. before Fukuda | 27 |
| Japanese P.M. during W.W. II | 28 |
| Japanese P.M. during WWII | 25 |
| Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___ | 24 |
| Japanese P.M.: 1941-44 | 22 |
| Japanese P.M.: 1964-72 | 22 |
| Japanese P.M.: 1972–74 | 29 |
| Japanese P.M.: 1978-80 | 22 |
| Japanese P.M.: 1982-87 | 22 |
| Japanese paper figures | 22 |
| Japanese paper-folding art | 26 |
| Japanese peak, for short | 24 |
| Japanese peak, respectfully | 27 |
| Japanese place for couples | 26 |
| Japanese plane of W.W. II | 25 |
| Japanese PM Shinzo ___ | 22 |
| Japanese poem of 31 syllables | 29 |
| Japanese porcelain ware | 23 |
| Japanese port in Honshu | 23 |
| Japanese port near Nagasaki | 27 |
| Japanese port on Honshu | 23 |
| Japanese pottery center | 23 |
| Japanese prime minister | 23 |
| Japanese Prime Minister, once | 29 |
| Japanese protein source | 23 |
| Japanese puppet theater | 23 |
| Japanese raw fish dish | 22 |
| Japanese religious center | 25 |
| Japanese restaurant fare | 24 |
| Japanese restaurant offering | 28 |
| Japanese restaurant order | 25 |
| Japanese restaurant soup | 24 |
| Japanese restaurant staple | 26 |
| Japanese restaurant stock | 25 |
| Japanese restaurant vegetable | 29 |
| Japanese rice beverage | 22 |
| Japanese rice wine (Var.) | 25 |
| Japanese royal, for short | 25 |
| Japanese sacred mountain | 24 |
| Japanese salad ingredient | 25 |
| Japanese school of meditation | 29 |
| Japanese seaport or dog | 23 |
| Japanese seat of government | 27 |
| Japanese sect of Buddhism | 25 |
| Japanese self-defense method | 28 |
| Japanese serving girls | 22 |
| Japanese serving ritual | 23 |
| Japanese ship designation | 25 |
| Japanese shoving match | 22 |
| Japanese site of Expo '70 | 29 |
| Japanese sleuth Mr. __ | 22 |
| Japanese sleuth Mr. ___ | 23 |
| Japanese sleuth, Mr. ___ | 24 |
| Japanese sliding screen | 23 |
| Japanese smartphone maker | 25 |
| Japanese soup flavorer | 22 |
| Japanese soup flavoring | 23 |
| Japanese soup flavorings | 24 |
| Japanese soup ingredient | 24 |
| Japanese soup, apparently? | 26 |
| Japanese soybean paste | 22 |
| Japanese sports car line | 24 |
| Japanese statesman and family | 29 |
| Japanese statesman born 1841 | 28 |
| Japanese statesman et al. | 25 |
| Japanese statesman Hirobumi | 27 |
| Japanese statesman, 1841-1909 | 29 |
| Japanese statesman: 1841-1909 | 29 |
| Japanese story closer? | 22 |
| Japanese stringed instrument | 28 |
| Japanese stringed instruments | 29 |
| Japanese supercomputer maker | 28 |