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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wanna know how "Nihon" got turned into "Japan" in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear "Nihon" as "Japan?" They don't even sound close! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!

[โ€“] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's from an old Portuguese recording of the Mandarin Cipan. So, yeah lol

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan