Why is Japan Called JAPAN in English, and Not Nihon? @Linfamy
Why is Japan Called JAPAN in English, and Not Nihon?  @Linfamy
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History of Japan’s names.
The complex politics of samurai names: youtu.be/k5i7SPeGx3c

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📜 SOURCES
🔸 Carr, Michael. “Wa Wa lexicography.” International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 1992, pp. 1–31. doi.org/10.1093/ijl/5.1.1
🔸 Miller, Roy Andrew. The Japanese Language. Chicago UP, 1967, pp. 10–13.
🔸 Pletner, Oreste “Nippon or Nihon.” Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1940, pp. 654–656. doi.org/10.2307/2382607
🔸 Schafer, Edward H. “Fusang and beyond: the haunted seas to Japan.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 109, Issue 3, 1989, pp. 379–399. jstor.org/stable/604140

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