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Japan Automobile Research Institute
The Japan Automobile Research Institute (日本自動車研究所, JARI) is a neutral, public-interest Japanese automotive research foundation in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, operating the Shirosato Test Center and the Jtown automated-driving facility.
Japan Aviation Electronics
Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited (日本航空電子工業, known as JAE), is a Japanese electronics manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1953, making connectors, user interface solutions, and aerospace electronics.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (株式会社国際協力銀行, JBIC) is Japan's wholly government-owned policy financial institution, headquartered in Tokyo, that lends and guarantees for overseas resource development, Japanese exports, and imports of strategic commodities.
Japan Basin
Japan Basin (日本海盆), the deepest of the three deep basins of the Sea of Japan, near 4,000 m deep, with 8-10 km oceanic crust formed by Miocene back-arc spreading and source of Japan Sea Proper Water.
Japan Coast Guard
The Japan Coast Guard (海上保安庁, Kaijō Hoan-chō) is Japan's maritime law enforcement and rescue agency, established in 1948 and now an external agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Japan Cup
Japan Cup (ジャパンカップ), Japan's premier G1 international invitational horse race, 2,400 m turf, weight for age, at Tokyo Racecourse each late November. First run 1981; 2023 IFHA world top-rated race; 2025 winner Calandagan in record 2:20.3.
Japan customs-cleared crude (JCC)
Japan customs-cleared crude (JCC), also called the Japan Crude Cocktail, is the average price of crude oil imported into Japan, calculated monthly from customs statistics by the Ministry of Finance.
Japan during World War I
Japan during World War I: Entente belligerent (Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902) that seized Qingdao and German Pacific islands in 1914, issued the Twenty-One Demands, boomed economically, intervened in Siberia 1918–1922, and joined the League of Nations as a permanent Council member.
Japan during World War II
Japan during World War II: home-front total mobilization under the 1938 National General Mobilization Law, rationing, women's labor conscription, the 1945 surrender after atomic bombings and Soviet entry, and the 1945-1952 U.S. occupation reforms.
Japan Economic Federation
The Japan Economic Federation (日本経済連盟会, Nihon Keizai Renmeikai) was a central economic organization of large Japanese business, founded in 1922 and led first by Dan Takuma.
Japan Exchange Group
Japan Exchange Group (日本取引所グループ) is a Japanese financial instruments exchange holding company, formed in 2013 by merging the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange.
Japan Fair Trade Commission
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC, 公正取引委員会) is Japan's sole enforcement agency for the 1947 Antimonopoly Act, investigating cartels, reviewing mergers, and issuing cease-and-desist orders and surcharges.
Japan Farmers' Union
The Japan Farmers' Union (Nihon Nōmin Kumiai, or Nichinō) was Japan's first nationwide farmers' organization, founded in 1922 to organize tenant farmers and lead tenant disputes.
Japan Figure Skating Championships (全日本フィギュアスケート選手権)
Japan Figure Skating Championships (全日本フィギュアスケート選手権), or All-Japan Championships: JSF's annual December national title event for men's, ladies', pairs and ice dance, and the final selection meet for Japan's World and Olympic teams.
Japan Gold Disc Award
The Japan Gold Disc Award (日本ゴールドディスク大賞) is an annual Japanese music award, founded in 1987 by the Recording Industry Association of Japan and decided by sales.
Japan Gold Disc Awards
The Japan Gold Disc Awards are annual music awards run by Japan's Recording Industry Association of Japan since 1987, judged entirely by sales and streaming data.
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (陸上自衛隊, JGSDF) is Japan's land force branch, established 1954 from the National Police Reserve. Largest SDF service at about 140,000 personnel, with 9 divisions, 6 brigades, and roughly 160 camps nationwide.
Japan Highway Public Corporation
Japan Highway Public Corporation (日本道路公団, Nihon Dōro Kōdan), or JH, was a Japanese public corporation that built, managed, and collected tolls on the national expressway network from 1956 to 2005.
Japan Home Video (ジャパンホームビデオ)
Japan Home Video (ジャパンホームビデオ株式会社, JHV) is a Tokyo video production and distribution company founded 26 May 1984, known for the JHV, V-Movie, and Alice Japan labels and titles such as Shiryō no Wana and Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi.
Japan Industrial Club
The Japan Industrial Club (Nihon Kōgyō Kurabu) is a Japanese business leaders' organization founded in Tokyo in 1917, long known as the inner sanctum of the financial world.
Japan Industrial Partners
Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) is a Japanese private equity firm specializing in corporate carve-outs and privatization, founded in 2002 and best known for its 2023 takeover of Toshiba.
Japan Innovation Party
Japan Innovation Party (日本維新の会, Nippon Ishin no Kai): Osaka-based Japanese reformist party founded by Toru Hashimoto in 2010, advocating doshu decentralization, small government, and constitutional revision; in coalition with the LDP under Takaichi since October 2025.
Japan Iron and Steel Federation
The Japan Iron and Steel Federation (日本鉄鋼連盟, JISF) is the nationwide association of Japan's steel industry, founded in 1948 and known for steel statistics, standardization, and its green steel guidelines.
Japan Jam
Japan Jam (ジャパンジャム) is a Japanese rock and pop festival held during Golden Week at Chiba City Soga Sports Park in Chiba Prefecture, first held in 2010.
Japan Labor Union Council
The Japan Labor Union Council (Hyōgikai) was Japan's first nationwide federation of left-wing labor unions, founded in 1925 under Communist Party influence and banned in 1928.
Japan Marine United Corporation
Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) is a Japanese shipbuilding company headquartered in Yokohama, formed in 2013 through the merger of IHI Marine United and Universal Shipbuilding.
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (海上自衛隊)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (海上自衛隊, JMSDF), Japan's naval branch of the Self-Defense Forces, inaugurated July 1, 1954 from the 1952 Coastal Safety Force; defends Japan and sea lanes carrying over 90% of trade, with Aegis destroyers, two submarine flotillas, and Izumo-class F-35B conversions.
Japan Masses Party
The Japan Masses Party (日本大衆党, Nihon Taishuto) was a legal proletarian political party in interwar Japan, formed in December 1928 through a merger of seven parties led by Aso Hisashi.
Japan men's national volleyball team
The Japan men's national volleyball team (バレーボール男子日本代表) represents Japan in international men's volleyball under the Japan Volleyball Association, winning Olympic gold at Munich 1972 after bronze in 1964 and silver in 1968.
Japan Meteorological Agency
The Japan Meteorological Agency (Kishōchō) is Japan's national weather service under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, responsible for forecasts, severe weather warnings, and earthquake, tsunami, and volcano monitoring.