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Japan national baseball team
Samurai Japan (侍ジャパン), the Japan national baseball team, fields NPB and MLB players in the WBC, Olympics, and Premier12; it has won three WBC titles (2006, 2009, 2023) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold.
Japan national football team (サッカー日本代表)
Japan national football team (サッカー日本代表, Samurai Blue), the JFA-run men's team of Japan in the AFC: four Asian Cup titles (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011), every World Cup since 1998, manager Hajime Moriyasu, and a squad drawn mostly from European clubs.
Japan national rugby union team (ラグビー日本代表)
Japan national rugby union team (ラグビー日本代表), nicknamed the Brave Blossoms, is Japan's men's national team, the most successful in Asia and a Rugby World Cup quarter-finalist in 2019.
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (日本原燃), also known as JNFL, is a Japanese nuclear fuel-cycle company created in 1992 and headquartered in Rokkasho village, Aomori Prefecture.
Japan Post Holdings
Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (日本郵政株式会社) is a Tokyo-listed holding company that owns Japan Post Co., the national post office and logistics operator, with its bank and life insurer.
Japan Power Demonstration Reactor
The Japan Power Demonstration Reactor (JPDR) was Japan's first nuclear power plant, a boiling water reactor at Tokai Village, Ibaraki, built by General Electric and operated by JAERI.
Japan Prize
The Japan Prize (日本国際賞) is an international award for science and technology presented annually in Tokyo since 1985, with each laureate receiving 100 million yen.
Japan Proletarian Party
The Japan Proletarian Party (Nihon Musantō) was a short-lived left-wing party in prewar Japan, founded in March 1937, led by Kanjū Katō, and banned that December.
Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC; 大強度陽子加速器施設) is a proton accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan, run by KEK and JAEA and known for the T2K neutrino experiment.
Japan Railways Group (JRグループ)
Japan Railways Group (JR Group) is seven private railway companies formed in 1987 when Japan privatized Japanese National Railways: six regional passenger operators and JR Freight.
Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification
Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification is the system of class codes identifying locomotives on Japan's railways, first standardized in 1909 and still used by the JR companies.
Japan Record Awards (日本レコード大賞)
The Japan Record Awards (日本レコード大賞, Nihon Rekōdo Taishō) are Japan's oldest annual music awards, established in 1959, with the Grand Prize decided live on TBS each December.
Japan Research Reactor No. 3
Japan Research Reactor No. 3 (JRR-3) is a 20 MW research reactor at the JAEA Tokai site in Ibaraki Prefecture, first critical in 1962 and upgraded in 1990.
Japan Robot Association Award
The Robot Award (ロボット大賞) is a biennial Japanese government commendation program, first held in 2006, honoring robots and robot projects that create new markets.
Japan Securities Finance
Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd. (日本証券金融株式会社) is the only securities finance company licensed in Japan, founded in 1927 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Japan Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊)
Japan Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊, Jieitai): Japan's armed organization of Ground, Maritime, and Air branches under the Ministry of Defense, founded 1954 under Article 9 constraints, exclusively defense-oriented, now expanding toward a 2%-of-GDP budget.
Japan semiconductor revival program
Japan semiconductor revival program: government-backed policies after the 2020 chip shortage, built on TSMC's JASM fabs in Kumamoto and the state-founded foundry Rapidus, aiming for 2nm mass production in Hokkaido by 2027.
Japan Sinks
Japan Sinks (日本沈没, Nihon chinbotsu) is Sakyo Komatsu's 1973 disaster SF novel in which tectonic shifts sink the Japanese archipelago. Sold 3.85 million copies, won the 1974 Mystery Writers of Japan Award, and spawned films, TV dramas, manga, and the 2020 Netflix anime.
Japan Snake Center
Japan Snake Center (ジャパン・スネークセンター) is Japan's only snake-specialized zoo, in Yabuzuka, Ota, Gunma, run by the Japan Snake Institute research foundation; about 200 snakes of 40+ species, venom extraction demos, and a snakebite consultation line.
Japan Socialist Party
Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakaitō), Japan's main postwar socialist opposition party, founded 1945, largest opposition to the LDP 1955–1993, pacifist and Marxist, renamed Social Democratic Party in 1996.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会, Gakushin), Japan's sole independent research funding agency, founded 1932 with an imperial endowment; administers KAKENHI grants, fellowships, and international programs with a ¥301.4 billion FY2026 budget.
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
The Japan Society of Civil Engineers (Doboku Gakkai) is a Japanese professional society for civil engineering, founded in 1914, with about 39,000 members and headquarters in Tokyo.
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME; 日本機械学会) is Japan's national professional society for mechanical engineering, founded in 1897 and headquartered in Tokyo, with more than 35,000 members.
Japan Standard Time (日本標準時)
Japan Standard Time (日本標準時), also called Tokyo Standard Time, is the single time zone of Japan, defined as UTC plus 9 hours with no daylight saving.
Japan Studio
Japan Studio (SIE JAPANスタジオ), Sony's oldest first-party developer in Tokyo from 1993, made Ape Escape, Gravity Rush, Patapon, Ico; wound down February 2021, absorbed into Team ASOBI.
Japan Tobacco (日本たばこ産業株式会社)
Japan Tobacco Inc., also known as 日本たばこ産業株式会社, is a Japanese tobacco company founded in 1985, known for Winston, Camel, and Ploom products sold in over 130 markets.
Japan Transport Safety Board
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), also called the Japanese Transportation Safety Board, is Japan's national agency investigating the causes of aircraft, railway, and marine accidents and serious incidents.
Japan Trench
The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench off northeastern Japan where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the overriding plate, causing major earthquakes, including the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku quake.
Japan women's national football team (サッカー日本女子代表)
Nadeshiko Japan (サッカー日本女子代表), Japan's women's national football team run by the JFA, won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2015 silver, 2012 Olympic silver, and the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup, its third title.
Japan women's national volleyball team
Japan women's national volleyball team (女子日本代表, Hinotori Nippon), JVA-governed team; Olympic champions 1964 (Orient Witches) and 1976, bronzes 2010 and 2012; first foreign head coach Ferhat Akbas; fast, defense-first style despite shorter rosters.