Japan is also called Nippon.
The Japanese name for Japan is Nihon, and officially Nippon (nippon-koku, state of Japan).
The native name of Tokyo's country is Nihon or Nippon, which translates to Japan in English.
A derisive term for a Japanese person- from Nippon- native name of the country.
Both 'nihon' or 'nippon.'
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.
Nihon or Nippon or Nippon-Koku - literally means The State of Japan
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.
japan is also known as 'nihon-koku' or 'nippon-koku'.
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.