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Joint Soviet-American Commission
The Joint Soviet-American Commission (미소공동위원회, 미소공위) was a US-Soviet body established in Korea in 1946 to help create a provisional Korean government; it failed and the Korean question passed to the UN.
Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing
The Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing (JSFAW) is a joint RAF and British Army unit formed in 2001 to provide helicopter support to United Kingdom Special Forces.
Joint Special Operations Command
The Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, is a US sub-unified command under USSOCOM that prepares special operations forces and conducts missions from Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
Joint State Political Directorate
The Joint State Political Directorate, known as the OGPU, was the Soviet Union's political police and state security agency, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky until 1926.
Joint Strike Fighter program
The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the US Department of Defense program that developed and fields the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter in three variants.
Joint Task Force 2
Joint Task Force 2 (JTF 2), Canada's Tier 1 special operations and counter-terrorism unit, created in 1993 from the RCMP SERT mandate, part of CANSOFCOM since 2006, first deployed in major combat in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Joint terminal attack controller
A joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) is a qualified service member who directs close air support aircraft and grants weapons release clearance near friendly forces.
Joint Terrorism Task Force
The Joint Terrorism Task Force is an FBI-led unit that combines federal, state, and local agencies to prevent terrorism, with the first established in New York City in 1980.
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint U.S. Navy and Air Force command issuing tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings for the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Joint US intelligence advisory on Chinese AI distillation (AA26-251A)
The joint US intelligence advisory on Chinese AI distillation, AA26-251A, was issued by the NSA, CISA, and FBI in September 2026, accusing six China-based AI companies of extracting capabilities from US frontier models.
Joint venture
A joint venture (JV), also called a temporary partnership, is a business arrangement where two or more independent entities share capital, control, and profits for a project.
Joint-stock company
A joint-stock company, also called a stock corporation, is a company whose capital is divided into transferable shares held only by its shareholders, a form traced to early 17th-century maritime trading companies.
Jointed plain concrete pavement
Jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) is unreinforced Portland cement concrete pavement whose cracking is controlled by contraction joints, and it is the most common concrete pavement type worldwide.
Jointown Pharmaceutical Group
Jointown Pharmaceutical Group (九州通) is China's largest privately owned pharmaceutical distributor, a Wuhan company founded by Liu Baolin in 1999 and listed in Shanghai since 2010.
Joinville Island (landform)
Joinville Island (Islas Joinville), largest island of the Joinville archipelago at the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, charted by d'Urville in 1838 and named after Prince de Joinville; geologically continuous with Trinity Peninsula.
Joist
A joist is a horizontal structural member that supports a floor or ceiling, running in parallel rows between beams or walls. Wood I-joists, first made in 1969, span farther than sawn lumber.
Joivan Wade
Joivan Wade (born 1993, London) is a British actor, producer and entrepreneur, known as Victor Stone/Cyborg in Doom Patrol (2019–2023), Isaiah in The First Purge (2018), and co-founder of the Wall of Comedy digital platform.
Joji (musician)
Joji, also known as George Kusunoki Miller, is a Japanese-Australian singer, songwriter, and producer of moody lo-fi R&B, formerly the comedy YouTube personality Filthy Frank.
Joji (ജോജി) (film)
Joji (ജോജി) is a 2021 Malayalam crime drama directed by Dileesh Pothan, written by Syam Pushkaran, and starring Fahadh Faasil, inspired by Macbeth rather than directly adapting it. Released 7 April 2021 on Amazon Prime Video, it follows a young man's greed-driven crimes in a wealthy Kottayam family during the pandemic.
Joji Kato
Joji Kato (加藤条治), Japanese speed skater born 1985 in Yamagata, 500 m specialist; 2010 Vancouver Olympic bronze medalist and 34.30 world record holder 2005-2007; competed in four Winter Games 2006-2018, retired 2022.
Joji Obara
Joji Obara (織原城二), born Kim Sung Jong in 1952, is a Korean-Japanese former property developer serving life for nine rapes, the 1992 death of Carita Ridgway, and the abduction and mutilation of Lucie Blackman's body; courts never convicted him of killing Blackman.
Joji Yamamoto (山本譲司)
Joji Yamamoto (山本譲司, Yamamoto Jōji), born 1962, is a Japanese politician and writer: two-term Diet member, imprisoned in 2001 for secretary-salary fraud, author of the prize-winning prison memoir Gokusōki, and now Reiwa Shinsengumi secretary-general in the House of Representatives.
JoJo (singer)
JoJo (Joanna Noelle Levesque, born 1990) is an American pop/R&B singer and actress, youngest female solo artist to top US pop radio with "Leave (Get Out)" (2004), later freed from Blackground via lawsuit, founder of Clover Music, 2020 Grammy winner.
JoJo (wrestling)
JoJo (Joseann Alexie Offerman, born 1994) is an American singer and ring announcer, WWE announcer 2013-2021 across NXT, SmackDown, and Raw, Total Divas original cast member, daughter of MLB player Jose Offerman.
JoJo Fletcher
JoJo Fletcher (Joelle Fletcher, born 1990, Dallas) is a TV personality and real estate developer, runner-up on The Bachelor season 20, Bachelorette season 12 lead, married to Jordan Rodgers since 2022, mother of daughter Romy.
Jojo Mayer
Jojo Mayer is a Swiss drummer, born in Zurich and long based in New York, known for recreating electronic dance beats live on an acoustic drum kit.
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes, pen name of Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 1969), is an English novelist known for Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.
JoJo Parker
JoJo Parker (Joseph Paul Parker, born 2006) is a shortstop drafted eighth overall in 2025 by the Toronto Blue Jays from Purvis High, Mississippi; Gatorade state player of the year, Blue Jays' top prospect, High-A Vancouver.
Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit (2019) is Taika Waititi's WWII comedy-drama, adapted from Christine Leunens' Caging Skies, about a German boy whose imaginary friend is Hitler. Six Oscar nominations; won Best Adapted Screenplay.
JoJo Siwa
JoJo Siwa (Joelle Joanie Siwa, born 2003, Omaha) is an American singer-dancer from Dance Moms and Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition who signed with Nickelodeon at 13, sold millions of bows, came out in 2021, and rebranded with "Karma" in 2024.