No its not called the setting sun
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Japan is known as the "Land of the Rising Sun," not the setting sun. This nickname reflects Japan's location to the east of China, where the sun rises.
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traditionally japan is called Nihon. Its still called that now. Japan is also known as the land of the rising sun.
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
The phrase "from the rising sun to the setting sun" signifies a complete span of time or distance from the beginning to the end. It can also symbolize the entirety of a journey or a comprehensive view of a situation.
Japan , called as " rising of morning SUN"
In the Mountain and in the Village in the western hill of Japan
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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.
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.
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.