日

sunbed; tanning bed; tanning booth

start day for military operation; departure day; D-Day

day that something happens; day that one happens across something

Martial arts

Nippon Kempo; Nihon Kempo; Japanese martial art

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

Proverb

the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well

itinerary

Proverb

Rome was not built in a day

Japan New Party (Japanese political party, 1992-1994)

this day last week; a week ago today

Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

transit of a planet over the solar disk; solar transit

Organization name

Japan Business Federation; Keidanren

Slang; Orig. from the title of a 2016 blog post by a mother lamenting not being able to get her child into day care

fuck Japan; drop dead, Japan

to put a time-limit on

Organization name

Nippon Sport Science University

Japan-US trade friction

without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end

southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)

Ash Wednesday

Legend; Shinto

Nigihayahi; deity who married Nagasunehiko's younger sister and subsequently killed him when he opposed Emperor Jimmu

arched eyebrows

Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)

day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed