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.
Nippon is Japan.
Nippon is Japan in japenese
That would be called Japan in English.
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Japan
Japan is also called Nippon.
The Japanese name for Japan is Nihon, and officially Nippon (nippon-koku, state of Japan).
Both 'nihon' or 'nippon.'
A derisive term for a Japanese person- from Nippon- native name of the country.
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.
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 means "the sun's origin", which is commonly translated to: "land of the rising sun." This name comes from correspondence by Chinese diplomats with the Chinese imperial court and refers to Japan's location relative to China (i.e. to the east, in the direction of the rising sun in the morning.) "Nippon" and the related, more common and casual version of the same name, "Nihon", are both names for the country called Japan in English.
japan is also known as 'nihon-koku' or 'nippon-koku'.
Nippon or Nihon
Nihon or Nippon or Nippon-Koku - literally means The State of Japan