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Nipple clamp
Nipple clamp: a pressure device placed on the nipple or areola for consensual erotic and BDSM sensation play. Types include adjustable screw, clover, magnetic, weighted, and suction clamps; removal is more intense than application.
Nipple piercing
Nipple piercing: a body piercing through the nipple, known since at least the 14th century, revived in the 1970s Euro-American movement. Heals in 6-12 months; risks include infection, breast abscess, and breastfeeding impairment.
Nipple reconstruction
Nipple reconstruction is a surgical procedure that recreates a projecting nipple on a reconstructed breast using local skin flaps or grafts, with tattooing to restore color.
Nipple stimulation
Nipple stimulation: manual, pump, or electrical stimulation of the nipple that releases prolactin and oxytocin; used for labor induction and augmentation, milk ejection, and sexual response, with hyperstimulation the main obstetric risk.
NIPPLEPEOPLE
nipplepeople is a masked Croatian electro-pop act from Zagreb, formed in 2008, whose two anonymous musicians give no interviews and are known for "Sutra" and "Frka".
Nippon Budokan (日本武道館)
Nippon Budokan (日本武道館), Tokyo's octagonal martial arts hall in Kitanomaru Park, built for 1964 Olympic judo, later famous as a concert venue since The Beatles' 1966 shows.
Nippon Carbon
Nippon Carbon is a Japanese manufacturer of carbon products, founded in 1915 and headquartered in Tokyo, known for graphite electrodes, carbon fibers, and lithium-ion battery anode materials.
Nippon Columbia
Nippon Columbia (日本コロムビア) is a Japanese record company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1910 and the oldest in the country, using the Columbia name since 1927.
Nippon Express
Nippon Express (日本通運) is a Japanese logistics company founded in 1937 that links land, sea, and air transportation and ranks 4th among global freight forwarders in 2026.
Nippon Express Holdings
Nippon Express Holdings is a Tokyo holding company, established in 2022, that manages the NX Group of logistics companies operating in 56 countries with about 76,000 employees.
Nippon Expressway Company
Nippon Expressway Company, known as NEXCO, is the collective name for the three Japanese companies that operate most of Japan's expressways, created by privatization in 2005.
Nippon Ichi Software
Nippon Ichi Software (日本一ソフトウェア) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, best known for the Disgaea strategy RPG series and quirky niche titles.
Nippon Kaigi
Nippon Kaigi (日本会議, Japan Conference) is Japan's largest conservative nationalist lobby, founded May 30, 1997, from two predecessor groups; known for constitutional revision advocacy, imperial reverence, historical revisionism, and close ties to the Abe cabinets via its Parliamentarian League.
Nippon Kayaku
Nippon Kayaku is a Japanese chemical company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1916 as Japan's first private-sector explosives manufacturer, now producing airbag inflators, semiconductor resins, and anticancer drugs.
Nippon Kokan
Nippon Kokan (日本鋼管, NKK) was a Japanese steelmaker and heavy-industry company founded in 1912 as Japan's first steel pipe manufacturer; it merged into JFE Holdings in 2002.
Nippon Life Insurance
Nippon Life Insurance (日本生命保険相互会社) is a Japanese mutual life insurer with 15.19 million customers and ¥96 trillion in assets as of March 2025, about half its business now foreign insurance.
Nippon Paint
Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese paint manufacturer founded in Tokyo in 1881, ranking first in Asia and fourth worldwide, controlled by Singapore's Wuthelam Group.
Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構)
Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, NPB), Japan's top professional baseball organization, runs the Central and Pacific Leagues, 12 teams total, founded as a two-league system in 1950 after the 1936 single league, with the Japan Series as its championship.
Nippon Sangoku
Nippon Sangoku (日本三國) is a Matsuki Ikka manga on Shogakukan's MangaOne, a Three Kingdoms-style war saga in post-collapse Japan split into Yamato, Buō, and Seii; TV anime premiered April 2026, sequel announced September 2026.
Nippon Seinenkan
Nippon Seinenkan (日本青年館), today billed as Nippon Seinenkan Hall, is a 1,249-seat multi-purpose hall in Shinjuku, Tokyo, staging musicals, concerts, and lectures; the first hall on the site opened in 1925.
Nippon Shokubai
Nippon Shokubai (日本触媒) is a Japanese chemical manufacturer headquartered in Osaka, founded in 1941, known for acrylic acid and the superabsorbent polymers used in disposable diapers.
Nippon Steel (日本製鉄)
Nippon Steel (日本製鉄), also known as Nippon Steel Corporation, is Japan's largest steelmaker and the world's third largest, formed by mergers in 1970 and 2012.
NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.
NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. (日鉄ケミカル＆マテリアル) is a Japanese chemicals and materials company, wholly owned by Nippon Steel, producing chemicals from steelworks byproducts.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (日本電信電話)
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (日本電信電話), known as NTT Corporation, is Japan's core telecommunications carrier, privatized from state ownership in 1985 and parent of NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
Nippon Yusen
Nippon Yusen (日本郵船), commonly NYK, is a Japanese shipping group founded in 1885 and one of Japan's three major shipping companies, operating 886 vessels in 2025.
Nipponia
Nipponia (crested ibis, Nipponia nippon, toki トキ) is a monotypic ibis genus of East Asia. Reduced to 7 wild birds found in Shaanxi, China in 1981, it recovered to over 9,000 by 2022 through captive breeding and reintroduction.
Nipponopelta
Nipponopelta yezoensis, first named ankylosaur from Japan, a nodosaurid from the Cenomanian Hikagenosawa Formation of Hokkaido; holotype MCM A522 partial skull named in 2026, sister to North American Pawpawsaurus.
Nippur
Nippur, also known as Nibru, is an ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq, the sacred seat of the god Enlil and a major source of cuneiform tablets.
Nippur Dilmun texts
The Nippur Dilmun texts are Kassite-period cuneiform letters and tablets from Nippur in southern Iraq, chiefly two mid-14th-century BC letters by Ilī-ippašra, governor of Dilmun, to Nippur's governor.
Nippur Kassite archive
The Nippur Kassite archive is a hoard of about 12,000 cuneiform tablets from Nippur, southern Iraq, dated to the Kassite dynasty, roughly 1360 to 1220 BCE.