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.
Japan is known as the "Land of the Rising Sun," while Thailand is known as the "Land of the Free."
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Japan is called The Land of the Rising Sun. The pictographs for the word Nihon/Nippon (meaning sun-origin) are originally from Chinese, where they referred to Japan's location, east of mainland China.
Japan is called "the land of the rising sun."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.Japan
Japan is known to be called the "Land of the Rising Sun." This is because it is an eastern country. It is a known fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
The country is in the east and that is the direction from which the sun rises
The land of the rising sun, which is a nickname for Japan, is located in Asia.
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Japan is the Land of the Rising Sun.
japan means land of the rising sun and this is shown on their flag which is which is white to represent the land with a red circle in the middle to reprresent the rising sun
No, Japan is the land of the rising sun
land of riseing sun