| Japanese art | 12 |
| Japanese art form | 17 |
| Japanese art genre | 18 |
| Japanese art medium | 19 |
| Japanese art of flower arranging | 32 |
| Japanese art of folding paper | 29 |
| Japanese art of paper folding | 29 |
| Japanese art of paper-folding | 29 |
| Japanese art of self-defense | 28 |
| Japanese assassin | 17 |
| Japanese assembly | 17 |
| Japanese assent | 15 |
| Japanese astronomer | 19 |
| Japanese athlete | 16 |
| Japanese athletes | 17 |
| Japanese attack site, June 1942 | 31 |
| Japanese audio products company since 1947 | 42 |
| Japanese auto | 13 |
| Japanese automaker | 18 |
| Japanese automakers, e.g. | 25 |
| Japanese band | 13 |
| Japanese band? | 14 |
| Japanese bands? | 15 |
| Japanese banjo | 14 |
| Japanese bastion of W.W. II | 27 |
| Japanese batter | 15 |
| Japanese battle cry | 19 |
| Japanese battle cry in WWII | 27 |
| Japanese bay | 12 |
| Japanese bay city | 17 |
| Japanese bean curd | 18 |
| Japanese bean paste | 19 |
| Japanese Beatle backer? | 23 |
| Japanese Beatle? | 16 |
| Japanese beds | 13 |
| Japanese beef | 13 |
| Japanese beef center | 20 |
| Japanese beer | 13 |
| Japanese beer brand | 19 |
| Japanese beer named for a city | 30 |
| Japanese beetle, e.g. | 21 |
| Japanese beetle, to a gardener | 30 |
| Japanese belief | 15 |
| Japanese belt | 13 |
| Japanese beverage | 17 |
| Japanese beverage made from rice | 32 |
| Japanese beverages | 18 |
| Japanese bidder for the 2008 Summer Games | 41 |
| Japanese bigwig of old | 22 |
| Japanese bikes | 14 |
| Japanese bird dish? | 19 |
| Japanese board game | 19 |
| Japanese board game: var. | 25 |
| Japanese board games (for hotshots?) | 36 |
| Japanese bobtail | 16 |
| Japanese born and raised in U.S. | 32 |
| Japanese bourse: Abbr. | 22 |
| Japanese bowlful | 16 |
| Japanese box | 12 |
| Japanese box lunch | 18 |
| Japanese box set | 16 |
| Japanese boxes | 14 |
| Japanese brazier | 16 |
| Japanese bread | 14 |
| Japanese bread? | 15 |
| Japanese breed | 14 |
| Japanese breed of dog | 21 |
| Japanese breed of dog that figured in O.J.'s "Trial of the Century" | 81 |
| Japanese brew | 13 |
| Japanese bucks | 14 |
| Japanese buckwheat noodle | 25 |
| Japanese Buddhist sect | 22 |
| Japanese Buddhist's church | 30 |
| Japanese butler in "Auntie Mame" | 42 |
| Japanese butler in "Mame" | 35 |
| Japanese cabbage? | 17 |
| Japanese caldera | 16 |
| Japanese camera | 15 |
| Japanese camera company until 2003 | 34 |
| Japanese candy sticks | 21 |
| Japanese candy that is, one hopes, inaptly named | 48 |
| Japanese canine | 15 |
| Japanese cape | 13 |
| Japanese capital | 16 |
| Japanese capital of yore | 24 |
| Japanese Capital region | 23 |
| Japanese capital until 1868 | 27 |
| Japanese capital, formerly | 26 |
| Japanese capital, once | 22 |
| Japanese car | 12 |
| Japanese carmaker | 17 |
| Japanese carmaker with the Rodeo | 32 |
| Japanese carp | 13 |
| Japanese carp found in ornamental ponds | 39 |
| Japanese cartoon | 16 |
| Japanese cartoon art | 20 |
| Japanese cartoon art genre | 26 |
| Japanese cartoon genre | 22 |
| Japanese cartoon style | 22 |
| Japanese cartooning | 19 |