Land of the Rising Sun

The story

1. Japanese · calque of日本“Japan”
2. English todayLand of the Rising Sun

Loose calque of Japanese 日本 (Nihon, “Japan”, literally “origin of the sun”) or 日の本の国 (Hinomoto-no-kuni, literally “land of the sun's origin”). Japan is the easternmost country of East Asia, and the East is the place of the sunrise.

Words from the same roots