JAPAN

Nintendo's headquarters

• 'Shogun' setting

• Land of the rising sun

• Seven Samurai setting

• The Mikado locale

• The Mikado setting

• Walk, Don't Run setting, 1966

• 1998 Olympics site

• 40's foe

• Akita's home

• Alphaville's Big in ___

• American ally

• Another name for Yamato

• Asian archipelago

• Axis nation

• Baseball-loving country

• Black lacquer

• Black varnish

• Butterfly's land

• Country ruled by a diet

• Country split into prefectures

• Country whose flag is a red circle on a white background

• Country whose largest island is Honshu

• Decorative, enamel coating

• FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 winners

• Finish, of a sort

• Glossy lacquer

• Go home?

• Godzilla's domain

• Godzilla's stomping ground

• Good place to have a yen

• Hard black varnish

• Hard varnish

• Hirohito's domain

• Hirohito's homeland

• Hitachi's home

• Home to Jumbo Ozaki

• Home to the Great Buddha of Kamakura

• Honda's headquarters

• Honda's home

• Honshu's locale

• Ichiro's homeland

• Ieyasu's land

• Island empire

• It consists of 47 prefectures

• It's symbolized by a red circle on white

• Its anthem is The Reign of Our Emperor

• Its national anthem is Kimigayo

• Its National Dog is the Akita

• Iwo Jima's country

• Kobe country

• Kobe's home

• Kobe's land

• Kyoto locale

• Kyoto's country

• Lacquer

• Land of kabuki and haiku

• Land of sumo and sushi

• Land of the Rising Sun

• Legends are made there

• Major country with the longest life expectancy

• Modern name for old Cipango

• Mongolia may attack it, even though they don't actually share a border

• Mount Fuji's nation

• Naruhito's country

• Nation of 47 prefectures

• Nation of Nara

• Nation of ninjas

• Nation where This Is Spinal Tap ends

• Neighbor of Korea

• Nintendo's home

• No performers are found here

• One of the Big Five at Versailles

• One of WWI's Big Five

• Oriental expanse

• Osaka's country

• Osaka's land

• Pachinko billionaire Kunio Busujima's country

• Pacific Rim land

• Perry opened it to the U.S.

• Rodan's land

• Russia's adversary in 1904-05

• Setting for The Last Samurai

• Shogun's home

• Sony's home

• Source of anime and manga

• Sumo land

• Sumo stomping grounds

• The Land of the Rising Sun

• Tokyo locale

• Tokyo's country

• Whence sumo and sushi

• Where besuboru is played

• Where Kimigayo is the national anthem

• Where Admiral Perry sailed

• Where Akitas originated

• Where kimonos are common

• Where Mount Fuji is

• Where noh originated

• Where Oh played

• Where one may have a yen to spend

• Where pachinko is played

• Where Rodan flapped

• Where shiatsu originated

• Where the Pok

• Where the violinist Midori is from

• Where to earn yen

• Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient

• Lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer

• A world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

• A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

• A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago