| Black lacquer | 13 |
| Where one may have a yen to spend | 33 |
| Tokyo's country | 19 |
| Source of anime and manga | 25 |
| Sea of ___ | 10 |
| Legends are made there | 22 |
| Kobe's land | 15 |
| Honda's home | 16 |
| Honda's headquarters | 24 |
| Finish, of a sort | 17 |
| "The Mikado" locale | 29 |
| Where the Pokémon craze originated | 37 |
| Where some ex-major-leaguers play | 33 |
| Where pachinko is played | 24 |
| Where noh originated | 20 |
| Where Mount Fuji is | 19 |
| Where "Kimigayo" is the national anthem | 49 |
| Tokyo's home | 16 |
| Three-time host nation of the Olympic Games | 43 |
| The Land of the Rising Sun | 26 |
| Sumo stomping grounds | 21 |
| Sumo land | 9 |
| Sony's home | 15 |
| Site of many ANA landings | 25 |
| Shogun's home | 17 |
| Setting for "The Last Samurai" | 40 |
| Sapporo setting | 15 |
| Ring of Fire country | 20 |
| Pacific Rim land | 16 |
| Pachinko billionaire Kunio Busujima's country | 49 |
| Osaka's land | 16 |
| Osaka's country | 19 |
| Oriental expanse | 16 |
| No place? | 9 |
| No performers are found here | 28 |
| Nintendo's home | 19 |
| Nintendo's headquarters | 27 |
| Neighbor of Korea | 17 |
| Mount Fuji's nation | 23 |
| Mount Fuji's locale | 23 |
| Modern name for old Cipango | 27 |
| Mikado land | 11 |
| Major country with the longest life expectancy | 46 |
| Land of sake | 12 |
| Kyoto setting | 13 |
| Kobe's home | 15 |
| Kobe's country | 18 |
| Kobe country | 12 |
| Kind of varnish | 15 |
| Iwo Jima's country | 22 |
| Its national anthem is "Kimigayo" | 43 |
| Its anthem is "The Reign of Our Emperor" | 50 |
| It's symbolized by a red circle on white | 44 |
| Honshu home | 11 |
| Home to the Great Buddha of Kamakura | 36 |
| Hitachi's home | 18 |
| Hard, brilliant varnish | 23 |
| Hard, black varnish | 19 |
| Hard varnish | 12 |
| Hard black varnish | 19 |
| Godzilla's land | 19 |
| Godzilla's domain | 21 |
| Godzilla's birthplace | 25 |
| Glossy lacquer | 14 |
| FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 winners | 39 |
| Eastern land. | 13 |
| Country whose flag is a red circle on a white background | 56 |
| Country where people are governed by their diet | 47 |
| Country ruled by a diet | 23 |
| Birthplace of Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland | 51 |
| Asian island nation | 19 |
| Another name for Yamato | 23 |
| "Walk, Don't Run" setting, 1966 | 45 |
| "The Mikado" setting | 30 |
| "Shogun" setting | 26 |
| "Seven Samurai" setting | 33 |
| "Land of the rising sun" | 34 |
| 'Shogun' setting | 24 |
| ''Shogun'' setting | 34 |
| ___ Current (Black Stream) | 26 |
| Like most sumo wrestlers | 24 |
| Whence the word "futon" | 33 |
| Tsunami source? | 15 |
| They have a yen for business | 28 |
| No talking? | 11 |
| NHK is broadcast in it | 22 |
| Like go | 7 |
| Language that uses katakana characters to spell out foreign words | 65 |
| Kabuki cast | 11 |
| Hokkaido resident | 17 |
| From Nippon | 11 |
| From Kobe | 9 |
| Beetle or sandman | 17 |
| "The ___ Sandman," 1920 song | 38 |
| ___ Sandman of song | 19 |
| Party lighting option | 21 |
| Paper-clad light source on a patio, perhaps | 43 |
| Eastern light | 13 |
| Make sport of | 13 |
| Jest | 4 |