| Japanese stranglehold | a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe |
Chino-Japanese War
Sino-Japanese War | a war between China and Japan ( and ) over the control of the Korean Peninsula, China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japanese victory in the war with Russia (-) gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria |
| wagtail | Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks |
Japanese oyster
Ostrea gigas | a large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States, a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay |
pied-billed grebe
Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
| Japanese spaniel | breed of toy dogs originating in Japan having a silky black-and-white or red-and-white coat |
Japanese beetle
Popillia japonica | small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia, serious plant pest in North America |
| pied lemming | North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged |
Japanese deer
sika
Cervus nipon
Cervus sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers |
| pied-a-terre | lodging for occasional or secondary use, they bought a pied-a-terre in London |
| Japanese | the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese |
loquat
Japanese plum | yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh, used for jellies |
| Japanese crab | crabmeat usually canned, from Japan |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Japan Japanese Islands
Japanese Archipelago | a string of more than , islands to the east of Asia extending , miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean |
Tokyo
Tokio
Yeddo
Yedo
Edo
Japanese capital
capital of Japan | the capital and largest city of Japan, the economic and cultural center of Japan |
| Japanese deity | a deity worshipped by the Japanese |
Pied Piper
Pied Piper of Hamelin | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning |
Japanese
Nipponese | a native or inhabitant of Japan |
| pied piper | a leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom) |
Japanese red pine
Japanese table pine
Pinus densiflora | pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature, grown as an ornamental |
Japanese black pine
black pine Pinus thunbergii | large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of , widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog |
Japanese cedar
Japan cedar
sugi
Cryptomeria japonica | tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood |
Japanese umbrella pine
Sciadopitys verticillata | tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs |
Japanese yew
Taxus cuspidata | shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage, cultivated in the eastern United States |
Japanese barberry
Berberis thunbergii | compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries, widespread in cultivation especially for hedges |
Japan allspice
Japanese allspice
winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
Chinese evergreen
Japanese leaf
Aglaonema modestum | erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves |
Japanese angelica tree
Aralia elata | deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree, adventive in the eastern United States |
Japanese pink
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii | a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals |
radish daikon
Japanese radish
Raphanus sativus longipinnatus | radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked |
Japanese brome
Japanese chess
Bromus japonicus | grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia |
Japanese millet
billion-dollar grass
Japanese barnyard millet
sanwa millet
Echinochloa frumentacea | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage, important wildlife food in United States |
Manila grass
Japanese carpet grass
Zoysia matrella | lawn grass common in the Philippines, grown also in United States |
Korean lawn grass
Japanese lawn grass
Zoysia japonica | lawn grass common in China and Japan, grown also in United States |
Chinese parasol tree
Chinese parasol
Japanese varnish tree phoenix tree
Firmiana simplex | deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods |
Japanese linden
Japanese lime
Tilia japonica | medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamental |
andromeda Japanese andromeda
lily-of-the-valley tree
Pieris japonica | broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers |
| Japanese beech | a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood |
Japanese chestnut
Castanea crenata | a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk |
Japanese oak Lithocarpus glabra
Lithocarpus glaber | small evergreen tree of China and Japan |
Japanese oak Quercus mongolica
Quercus grosseserrata | oak with moderately light fine-grained wood, Japan |
Japanese privet
Ligustrum japonicum | evergreen shrub of Japan and Korea having small dark leaves and flowers in loose panicles, related to but smaller than Chinese privet |
Japanese tree lilac
Syringa reticulata
Syringa amurensis japonica | small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers |
Japanese lilac
Syringa villosa | lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers |
Japanese banana
Musa basjoo | Asiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan |
Japanese hop
Humulus japonicus | ornamental vine native to eastern Asia, cultivated for its variegated foliage |
Japanese iris
Iris kaempferi | iris native to Japan having large showy flowers |
Welsh onion
Japanese leek
Allium fistulosum | Asiatic onion with slender bulbs, used as early green onions |