How did japan gets it name?

Answer 1

As the most general theory...It came from the word which Marco Polo

used to introduce Japan at the first time in

"The description of the world".

Nippon, the official name, is of Chinese origins and refers to the "land of the rising sun" as Japan, from China is east.

日本、or Nihon (when romanized) can be traced to the original pictorial meanings of the kanji used to write Japan in Japanese. Ever heard of the 'Land of the Rising Sun' ?

The first character, ni, represents the sun. What I have been taught about the second character is that it represents a tree (very similar to the kanji for tree, 木）and therefore the word represents the sun coming up through the trees, or, in other words, the rising sun.

At that time the area was dominated by China, and it was China that gave the names to the countries around them. Japan was to their East and was the land toward the rising sun.

Japan means Nippon "land of the rising sun" and in English it means Japan.

Answer 2

from New Orleans "jubalia"