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"The land of the rising sun" is Japan's nickname.

The Japanese word for Japan is Nihon / Nippon. The written characters, originally from Chinese, mean "sun-origin" and referred to Japan's location east of mainland Asia, in the direction of the rising sun.

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There are two connections to the nickname, which is typically applied to Japan.

The first is that the Japanese name for Japan (Nihon / Nippon) means "origin of the Sun."

Japan, being east of the Asian mainland, was called the "land where the Sun Rises" in ancient China.

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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.

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The Japanese name for Japan (Nihon / Nippon) is written as the two characters 日本 "sun-origin" (which were originally the Chinese name for Japan, east of mainland Asia).

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