| 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 |
bobwhite
bobwhite quail
partridge | a popular North American game bird, named for its call |
| Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
migratory quail
Coturnix coturnix
Coturnix communis | the typical Old World quail |
| quail | small gallinaceous game birds |
California quail
Lofortyx californicus | plump chunky bird of coastal California and Oregon |
mountain quail
mountain partridge
Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
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 |
button quail
button-quail
bustard quail
hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail
Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
| 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 |
Japanese deer
sika
Cervus nipon
Cervus sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers |
| Japanese | the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese |
| quail | flesh of quail, suitable for roasting or broiling if young, otherwise must be braised |
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 |
Japanese
Nipponese | a native or inhabitant of Japan |
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 |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
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 |