上

maritime safety

Abbreviation

Japan Coast Guard

Law

Japan Coast Guard Act

Medicine

upper respiratory tract infection; URTI

Quotation; Buddhism; Words supposedly recited by Buddha on his birth, while raising his right arm

throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one

lifting; hoisting; furling; winding

Waseda University, Keio University and Sophia University (three highly selective private universities in Tokyo)

Waseda University, Keio University, Sophia University and the Tokyo University of Science (four highly selective private universities in Tokyo)

outrage marketing (deliberately stirring up controversy to generate publicity); shock advertising; rage-bating

Heimlich maneuver

Heimlich maneuver

personal watercraft; jet ski; water scooter

nobori; long, narrow banner attached to a pole on one side and a horizontal rod along the top

(ideology of) ethnic supremacy; racial supremacism

no more, no less; that's the entirety of it

member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force; MSDF official

seizure at sea (of an enemy ship or cargo)

Computing

upstream process; upper process

Baseball

top of the (batting) order

upper and lower houses of parliament

overland transport; land carriage

one rank above; higher grade; next level; one grade up; one notch above

rooftop gardening; rooftop planting; roof greening

to smile

tabletop game