Why yes, Japan doesn't have a long official name like "Republic of _____" or "United States of____". It's just Japan

just like china and ghana

>South Korea
>Daehan Minguk
>lit. Great Korean People's State
Are 0 and 100 the only options in East Asia?

>Japan has an Emperor
>"ok so we call ourselves Empire of Japan?"
>"we did during and before WW2". We can't now because we need to differentiate between then and now".
That's why. For some reason we also just call ourselves Canada and not Commonwealth of Canada or Kingdom of Canada. For the longest time I thought our name was Kingdom of Canada. It should be the official name.

>Japan
Cringe
>Empire of Japan
BASED

>East Asian standards
>Philippines
lol

why did people start calling it japan anyway if it's nippon

no i will not google this

you're basically right and I know what you mean but Japan wanted to be like a western style empire in the first place when it was westernized and just used tenno for that

Im talking within your regions context Private Gomez-Smith. "Dai Nippon Teikoku" is a very silly name in the East Asian Context.

For starters the East Asian idea & concept of Empire is heavily based on the Chinese concept. Historically the Chinese don't have a word for the general sense of Empire. For them all countries- monarchies, tribal confederacies, other empires- were simply 國 (Guo), "States." However, the Chinese saw their own Empire as special, thus the og Chinese word for empire is synonymous with the concept that Justifies the existence of the Chinese Emperor, 天下 (Tianxia) or "All Under Heaven." After all, in the Chinese Imperial Rhetoric, their Emperor is not just any monarch but the world-ruler, who held the "Mandate of Heaven" to rule the world & make it harmonious & prosperous. Other foreign countries- even foreign empires- were treated as either "Tributaries" who were seen by the Imperial self-conceit as "outer subjects" of the Emperor, or "Barbarians" who were viewed as people whom the Emperor has yet to quell. Thus the only Emperor for the Chinese is of course their Emperor, the 皇帝 (Huangdi). Every foreign emperor they saw as mere, 王 (Wang), "Kings/Prince."

This Imperial self conceit of the Chinese was destroyed in the 19th Century when modern Western Imperial powers brought the Chinese Empoire low. Having to live with the reality that 1) their Emperor/Empire was not a world ruler and 2) their Empire was one among many, the Chinese were forced to invent this very ugly, dumb sounding word, to refer to other Empires: 帝國 (Diguo). It literally means "Emperor Country" or "Emperor State." It sounds like caveman talk in Chinese terms, which is why the Chinese don't use this term for their historic Empires. Like for example, they still refer to "Han Tianxia" or "Song Tianxia", but when referring to the Roman Empire, its suddenly Luoma Diguo. In the Chinese lexicon & culture, its just a silly sounding word.

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Now let's go back to Japan.

Japan became a great power in the 19th Century, which made it think that maybe, being merely called "The State of Japan" 日本國 (Nihon-koku/Riben Guo) doesn't fit Japan's new status anymore. But the problem is most classical East Asian terms for Imperial ,ajesty is very Chinese, so the Nationalistic Meiji Japs couldn't go around using shit like "天下." So they settled for an old cope by Non-Chinese East Asian Monarchs: simply calling your country "Great" 大 (Dai/Da). After all the Koreans & the Viets did it (Daehan, Dai-Viet). But the thing is it isn't Imperial sounding enough & you want to differentiate yourselves from the other Asian Empires & and of course, replace China as the regional East Asian big dick, so the Japs wanted more. Thankfully the Chinese had invented this (unknown to them) silly word for the general concept of Empire, which Japan gladly fucking used: Diguo (or Teikoku in Japanese).

So that's how silly "Dai Nippon Teikoku" is. Lit. Great Japan Empire-Country. It reeks of insecurity of a johnny-come-lately imperial power and uses hilarious neologisms which do not make sense in the Imperial/Royal cultures of the Sinocentric world. Its like calling your country "Super Duper Powerful Place." in the East Asian sense.

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>now I remember my grandma used to call japan dai nippon

When will Japan give Hokkaido to Russia?
It was promised to them in 1945.