At the eastern most point
From the island the mainland is clearly visible. Mainland here means that the land is part of a continent and can be seen from an island which is separated from the mainland by water.
The sun, obviously seen, x
The sun first rises on the United States at Eastport, Maine, the eastern most town in the USA.
Venus because it is the hottest and most lite by the sun
"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.
John Cabot was the first European to reach the mainland of what is now the United States.
"have seen" is the verb, and it is in the present perfect tense.
No, The sun is seen as a sun and not a star. Our sun is a star.
There are two connections to the nickname, which is typically applied to Japan, not Thailand. The first is that the Japanese name for Japan (Nihon / Nippon) means "origin of the Sun." The other is that Japan, being east of the Asian mainland, was called the "land where the Sun Rises" in ancient China.
The diameter of the sun as seen from Earth is approximately 1.4 million kilometers.
Reason #1: It's blocked by the Earth below your feet. Reason #2: "Night" is defined as the time when sun did not seen. If sun did seen, then would be called "day".
Nihon/Nippon (in the originally Chinese characters) literally translates as "sun's origin" and so over time people began calling it the 'Land of the Rising Sun'. Japan is to the east of mainland Asia, where the sun rises.