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Where did "Japan" come from?

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 16:05

Any weeaboo knows that their precious anime comes from a country calling itself Nihon/Nippon.  How did Nihon come to be called Japan?

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 16:24

Jap sounds funnier than nip lololol

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 16:25

Same way Indians got named Indians... Europeans screwed it up.

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 16:56

>>1
terra --> earth
nihon --> japan

you people change the names of a lot of things

i can't remember more right now, but maybe later

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 17:01

Did you know that japland is an island????

'cause I didn't till just now.

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 18:15

The mother country --> England

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 18:23

Niggers --> ...Niggers

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 18:37

White Shit ---> American

White Shit = Reject from european society

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 18:45

White Shit ---> Australian?

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 18:51

>>8
>>9
true

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 22:24

White Shit ---> Bowel Obstruction

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 23:12

learn to use wikipedia,

"The westernized pronunciation is believed to have arisen from that of a south Chinese dialect, in which it is pronounced /jāk-bəng/"

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 23:13

Wikipedia is written by nerds not cool enough for 4chan.

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-02 0:37


/jāk-bəng/ ---> Chi Bai

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