日

Buddhism

Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

fixed date

Allied Council for Japan

Organization name

Japan Professional Football League

Organization name

Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association

Organization name

Japan Amateur Baseball Association

Fertile Crescent

Holy Saturday

Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)

Company name

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Organization name

Japan Amateur Sports Association; JASA

trade deficit with Japan

Organization name

Japan Hotel Association

Christianity

Maundy Thursday; Holy Thursday

Organization name

Entomological Society of Japan

Abbreviation

Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan (Bank of Japan's quarterly economic survey); Tankan survey

Colloquial; Abbr. of 今日一番

today's best

Organization name

United Church of Christ in Japan

number of days spent in hospital

Organization name

Japanese Association of Religious Organizations

Organization name

Japan Society for Contemporary Music; JSCM

Health and Sports Day (national holiday; second Monday in October); Sports Day

Organization name

Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) (abbr)

Idiomatic expression; Proverb

single mistake which ruins all one's hard work; one blunder rendering a long period of effort useless; one fart in a hundred days of sermons