| YOKOHAMA | The second largest city in Japan, capital of Kanagawa prefecture |
| KYOTO | City in central Japan; capital of the country from 794 to 1868 (5) |
| NARA | City in central Japan; capital of the country from 710-784 (4) |
| KOBE | Major port city of SW Japan, capital of Hyogo prefecture (4) |
| OSAKA | Third- largest city in Japan, on Honshu island at the mouth of the Yodo River (5) |
| NAGOYA | Which is the fourth largest city in Japan? (6) |
| KAWASAKI | City in Kanagawa, Honshu, Japan, on the south bank of the Tama River (8) |
| TOKYO | Largest city in Japan |
| ARTHISTORIAN | Knows the origins of the great wave off Kanagawa being an expert on The Liffey Swim (3,9) |
| WAVE | The Great ___ off Kanagawa, a woodblock print by the Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Hokusai |
| EDO | Old name of Japan's capital |
| SISTERCITY | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: 2 wds. |
| NAIROBI | New look needing sash from Japan's capital |
| ADJOURN | Put off by fuss about Japan's capital vessel (7) |
| HIROSHIMA | City in Japan; target in 1945 of the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area (9) |
| FUKUYAMA | City in Japan, in Hiroshima Prefecture on Honshu Island (8) |
| HITACHI | City in Japan, on Honshu, a centre of the electronics industry (7) |
| YEN | Japan's capital |
| NOISEMAKER | No city in Japan to produce registered vuvuzela in America (10) |
| SAGA | A legend of heroic exploits from a city in Japan |
