Why Japan is called the Land of the Rising Sun.

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The earliest mention of Japan found in the Chinese book: itself, Japan there has been described in terms of the Chinese. When the Chinese have looked to the east, where is Japan, they looked in the direction from which the sun rises.

In the 57th year, n. e. in the eastern capital of China Khanate it was sent to the first Japanese ambassador. Then, Japan, and the Japanese were called in, and Japan at that time was a vassal state of China. The struggle for power in Japan was conducted by civil strife.

In the first century AD, the Yamato clan became stronger than its neighbors, and to the V century. n. e. Yamato word has become synonymous with Japan. Gradually it emerged in Japan, the central government - the Japanese took over the Chinese culture, including the policy, and ultimately freed from Chinese control.



Around the year 600 BC. e. Japanese Prince Regent Shotoku, a big fan of Chinese culture, privnёs in Japanese society the Confucian model of rank and etiquette. On his orders into use gradually entered the Chinese calendar, has developed a system of roads, built many Buddhist temples, is made up of the judiciary. In China to study Buddhism and Confucianism off students - as Japan and China established diplomatic relations long.

In addition, Shotoku invented in Japan called "Country of the Rising Sun" - he wrote in a letter to the Chinese emperor: "Out of the country where the sun rises, a country where the sun sets." Chinese, it seems, offended because the Japanese knyazёk tried to put myself on a par with the Emperor - the Son of Heaven.

In the 645th year BC. e., according to Japanese history, a palace coup led to the land reform - the whole land was owned by the government and the ruling family. Since then, in all official documents, Japan was called Japan. In the 670th year the Chinese were forced to put up with this name. It stuck, and over the past 1,400 years the world knows Japan under this name.

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