Nippon is Japan. The characters represent the words Sun and origins. The region was dominated by China and they referred to Japan as the land of the rising Sun, because from their shores, that was what the islands were.
The Japanese name for Japan is Nihon, and officially Nippon (nippon-koku, state of Japan).
The native name of Tokyo's country is Nihon or Nippon, which translates to Japan in English.
The Japanese name for Japan is Nihon / Nippon, where the written pictographs mean "sun origin." In the originally-Chinese characters, the name referred to Japan's location east of mainland China, in the direction of the rising sun.
Both 'nihon' or 'nippon.'
A derisive term for a Japanese person- from Nippon- native name of the country.
Japan is also called Nippon.
The Japanese refer to their own country as "Nihon" or "Nippon" in their language.
Nippon is now called Japan.
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According to True Meaning of Shiji, an 8th-century chronicle, the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian ordered a Japanese envoy to change the country's name to Nippon.
Nippon or Nihon
Japanese call their country "Nihon" or "Nippon".