Re: Japanese from Tungus

I believe "Nihon" is an exonym. You got it right, but it was the
Chinese who gave Japan that name.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:01:41 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
> I made the following conclusion almost immediately.  First, if Japanese and
> Korean are related, then the ancestors of the Japanese must have come from
> Korea, since it's the closest land mass to Japan.  Second, the Japanese
> islands are east of Korea.  The sun also rises in the east.  Therefore, the
> Japanese ancestors living in Korea must've seen (or found out about) those
> islands and said "Hey, there's land over there where the sun comes from!"
> And they called it "Morning-land".  On the other hand, they called the
> place in which they were already living (the Korean peninsula)
> simply "(the) Land".
>
> Anyways, I just wanted to share a revelation of mine. :)
>
> - Rob
>