| Japanese pond carp |
| Japanese dance-drama |
| Horoscope writer |
| Edible Japanese seaweed |
| And I only am escaped alone to tell thee" writer |
| Japanese beer |
| Japanese ruler |
| James Bond film, to a letter writer? |
| Hideo, Major League Baseball's winningest Japanese pitcher |
| Japanese peak, respectfully |
| Romance writer Ahlers |
| Japanese outcasts |
| Japanese hunting dog |
| Japanese copier company |
| Award for mystery writers |
| Japanese moolah |
| American Pastoral" Pulitzer-winning writer |
| Japanese form of self-defense |
| Japanese coin |
| Chinese dichotomy, to a Japanese economist? |
| Japanese soup ingredient |
| Japanese fighter |
| A-list screenwriter (and crossword fan) who won an Oscar for "Schindler's List," Steven ___ |
| Death in the Desert" writer, 1930 |
| Leftover noodles from a Japanese restaurant? |
| Japanese elder statesman |
| A People's History of the United States" writer Howard |
| Primitive Japanese |
| Screenwriter Ephron |
| Japanese Buddhist sect |