Why is Nippon called Japan?

Why is Nippon called Japan?

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Ja = Jakenpo (rock, paper, scissors)
Pan = pan

Hokaiddo has the shape of a pan and the rest of the island is its 'handle'
The islands are made of rock, which is the soil where you built your civilization
Therefore, Japan is a pan made of rock

This but unironically

why you don't lift up your fat ass and go research by yourself and not just ask

Japan unironically can traced back to Nippon.
It's a corruption of a corruption of a corruption between languages with wildly different phonologies.

you are onto it

STFU Texas

We call it Ιαπωνία (Iaponia)

>Japon

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