Complete Clue List
Across
1. Hindu deity with same sphere as Ameratsu
4. Often filled with pork, cabbage, garlic and ginger
7. You might be on this when escaping the Yakuza
8. Largest city on west side of Honshu
9. Land bound symbol down under
10. What it costs in Japan
12. What Godzilla presented to Tokyo
14. Okhotsk is one, between Russia and Hokkaido
15. Dress up fancy (2 wds)
17. May be part of a Japanese breakfast, but mostly grown for fodder
19. Tibetan ox
20. How to embarass family, or empty orchestra
21. University in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture
22. Hokkaido port city known for its canal
23. We call it soy sauce
Down
1. Prominent flavor often sensed along with umami
2. US college students' favorite Japanese food
3. Indigenous people of Hokkaido
4. Performer with stylized makeup and hair
5. Collective term for yen, sen, mon and euros
6. Away from one another
11. Period ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate
12. Shogatsu as celebrated in Vietnam
13. Honorific for an Ottoman officer
14. 'Single number' or the nine-fold path
15. Named the Imperial capitol in 1868
16. Irish police
17. Special geta worn by apprentice geisha
18. Red-crowned dancers often folded in origami; Japanese version
19. Affirmative votes