The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji 日本 and is pronounced Nippon or Nihon.
Before 日本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonymYamato.
Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is favored for official uses, including on banknotes and postage stamps.
Nihon is typically used in everyday speech and reflects shifts in Japanese phonology during the Edo period. The characters 日本 mean "sun origin", which is the source of the popular Western epithet "Land of the Rising Sun"
You Adulting Yearlings of mine enjoy. I’ll be the one letting my eggs expire towards Menopause. Perhaps in another lifetime, we’ll all get to make choices for ourselves, no one ever dies in agony, and the world will be made out of marshmallows.
Had to share this video to show you how beautiful and culturally rich Palestine is. These are the cities of Palestine and their names. Despite the destruction and death, we still have hope. And we will survive this 🙏🇵🇸
It's a beautiful country full of beautiful people, and we deserve to live, frankly.
HELLO JOHN . happy awesome birthday . Cant believe this is the last ask ill ever send you because im a minor . Oh well . anyway . just wanna say youre Pretty awesome sauceum Theres no other john in the world quite like you methinks . thabks for being so awesome and fun and cool and whatever .
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i never answer asks because i like to keep them forever . 🎉
ANYWAY THANK YEW :) i too think im the only john that exists youre very welcome ill keep up the good work and if i ever stop you can shatter me into a billion pieces
i am now 90 episodes into critical role campaign two and i do not think a single thing has shook me to my core as much as the fact that exandria’s summer solstice is the hottest day of the year. there is no seasonal lag in matt mercer’s world. how the fuck do thermodynamics work in his universe
I grew up with the animated Mulan movie. The first thing that came to my late teenaged mind was that Tengu Shredder had concubines in his palace during the Yamato era.
Happy heavenly Birthday Ava Lavinia Gardner (24 December 1922 – 25 January 1990)! She starred in films like The Barefoot Contessa, Show Boat, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Killers, Bhowani Junction, The Night of the Iguana, Mogambo, and Knights of the Round Table. Ava was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra.