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circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It is interesting, because Nippon is a somewhat archaic version in Japanese. They usually say Nihon now.

But of course, these exonyms will have been borrowed into these various languages a long time ago, so it kind of makes sense.

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