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The following are various names by which Japan is/has been called:

* Akishima or Akitsushima ("Island of the Dragonfly"), 秋津島
* The Land of the Rising Sun
* Oyashima (Oho Yashima), 大八洲 or 大八島国 (''Yashima'', or "eight islands'' is a reference to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Ahaji Shima, Iki no Shima, Oki no Shima, and Sadogashima)<ref>Michiko Y. Aoki, ''Records of Wind and Earth'', page 287</ref>
* Shinkoku or Kaminokoku ("land of the gods"), 神国 or 神の国
* Honcho ("True Morning"), 本朝
* Yamato, 大和
* Ashihara or Ashiharakoku
* Ka
* Wa, 和 or 倭

==Notes==
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==References==
* Aoki, Michiko, ''Records of Wind and Earth''
* Kaempfer, Engelbert.  (1999)  ''Kaempfer's Japan''.  University of Hawai'i Press.  Ttranslated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.  


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