日

Name until 2019

Japan Industrial Standards; JIS

Sumo

to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses

Yokkaichi asthma

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

sun drying; drying in the sun

Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

Company name

Nihon Bungeisha (publisher)

Organization name

Japan Tennis Association

Idiomatic expression

not to be spoken of in the same breath; cannot be compared; defying all comparison; bearing no comparison; not a same-day discussion

Kasuga Myōjin (the deity of Kasuga Shrine)

day by day

Astronomy

partial solar eclipse

Japan Current; Kuroshio Current

Idiomatic expression

keep improving every day

Japanese-style management

Bloody Sunday (esp. the January 22, 1905 Saint Petersburg incident)

American Independence day; Fourth of July

Japanese character

Organization name

Nippon Cargo Airlines

exports to Japan; exporting to Japan

sunshower

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Nihongo Daijiten (Japanese dictionary published by Kodansha)

Japanese Language Proficiency Test; JLPT

Armistice Day