Definitions For Japan

noun

• 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 string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
• A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

verb

• Coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan