1997 establishments in Japan

Japanese football club

Japanese football club

Japanese female idol group

Japanese metal band

MMA promoter based in Japan

Motorsport track in Japan

Japanese television station

Exhibition center in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

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High-speed railway line in Japan

baseball stadium in Osaka, Japan

railway line in Japan

Japanese far-right organisation

, known as KEK, is a Japanese organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, situated in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. It was established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory itself, which employs approximately 695 employees. KEK's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics, material science, structural biology, radiation science, computing science, nuclear transmutation and so on. Numerous experiments have been constructed at KEK by the internal and internat

art museum in Kōka, Shiga, Japan

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opera house in Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto Municipal Subway line

building in Izumi-ku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

only magazine published in the Ainu language

stadium

The Zepp music halls are a group of Japanese music venues covering every area of the country. They play host to many international tours and are a popular stop among Japanese musicians. Each venue takes the Zepp name, along with the city in which it is located. The Zepp company is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Starting from 2017, Zepp locations also opened in other countries like Singapore (formerly), Taiwan, and Malaysia. In 2022, it opened its first location in Malaysia at Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC), Kuala Lumpur.

Multi-purpose indoor arena in Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Highway in Tokyo Bay (tunnel - bridge)

is a Japanese new wave/electronic rock band from Tokyo, who dubs its unique style as "technicolor pogo punk". It was named after a brand of synthesizer, the Korg Polysix. The band started in 1997, but got their big break in 1998 at a concert in Tokyo. They create high energy music, fusing conventional guitar music with synthesized and computer generated sound to create a unique mixture of punk and synthpop heavily inspired by the American bands Devo and the Tubes, as well as Japanese bands such as P-Model and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their song lyrics often consist of Japanese, English, or even

multinational corporation

is a Japanese hip-hop group consisting of Taku Takahashi, Verbal and Lisa.

Japanese think tank and university

is a Japanese rock band formed in 1997 in Kyoto, signed to Universal Music Japan and managed by Badass. Their music styles are mix of rock, punk, heavy metal, reggae, hip-hop, guitar pop and bossa nova.

music festival

women's tennis tournament

Japanese band

building in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

gas-fired power station in Kawagoe, Mie, Japan

magazine

High-speed shinkansen service in Japan

Japanese professional wrestling promotion

Japanese fashion magazine

television station in Tochigi, Japan

railway line in Niigata prefecture, Japan

higher education institution in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan

museum in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan

arena

Japanese train type

(), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme created to provide a complete index of characters used in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese Chữ Nôm and other historical Chinese logographic writing systems. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType computer fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya stores.

higher education institution in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

museum in Japan

railway line in Kochi prefecture, Japan

public aquarium in Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

express train service in Japan which connects Hakata and Ōita

Ferris wheel in Osaka, Japan

expressway in Fukushima and Yamagata Prefectures, Japan

1994 film by Randal Kleiser

Higher education institution in Gunma Prefecture, Japan

museum in Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan

bridge in Japan

Japanese train type

band that plays rock music

building in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Higher education institution in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan