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by bliss_st on June 3rd, 2004

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Why is Japan called "the land of the rising sun"?

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  • by SethNess on September 27th, 2004

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    China's name, in Chinese, is "center country", and due to its huge size, it dominated Asian culture for thousands of years.

    In the Chinese/asian world-view, Japan was simply "the land of the Sun's origin". That is, the easternmost country in Asia. This is, in fact, where the names "Japan" (English/Chinese version) and "Nihon/Nippon" (Japanese version) come from. They are various pronunciations of the Chinese/Japanese ideographs for "sun's origin".

    In short, Japan is Asia's "land of the rising sun" for the same reason that Americans refer to the Maine>Florida coastline as "the East Coast", and feel safe that no American will think "the East Coast" refers to some part of Brazil, Asia, or Madagascar.

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