{"id":107,"date":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","slug":"nippon-versus-nihon-versus-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/nippon-versus-nihon-versus-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon versus Nihon versus Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">It often takes foreigners in Japan a while to distinguish between the two ways of pronouncing the name of the country itself, &#8220;Nihon&#8221; and &#8220;Nippon&#8221;. First of all, they are two different ways of reading the same kanji. So how do you know which to say when you see those kanji?<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Nihon&#8221; is the standard reading, and much more commonly used. It doesn&#8217;t really have any overt nuance. <br \/> &#8220;Nippon&#8221;, however, has that hard &#8220;p&#8221; sound in the middle, which makes it sound a lot stronger, and harder, than the somewhat breathy &#8220;Nihon&#8221;. As a result, &#8220;Nippon&#8221; is used when you want to add emotion or strength to the name. So, for example, at sporting events people will chant &#8220;Nippon&#8221;. It&#8217;s used when people want to show their love or feeling for Japan. It can also have nationalistic overtones, when used by ultra-right wingers as they broadcast from their black vans.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20060312-pic_0040.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"288\" alt=\"Sayuri\" title=\"Sayuri\"><\/p>\n<p> Or, it can be used as in the image above, to remind people of an older Japan. The clever tagline on this poster for the film &#8220;Memoirs of a Geisha&#8221; (or, in Japan, &#8220;Sayuri&#8221;), is this:<br \/> (Japanese) Nippon ga shitto suru Japan<br \/> (Direct translation) Nippon [subject] jealous does Japan<br \/> (English) A Japan to make Nippon jealous<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| It often takes foreigners in Japan a while to distinguish between the two ways of pronouncing the name of the country itself, &#8220;Nihon&#8221; and &#8220;Nippon&#8221;. First of all, they are two different ways of reading the same kanji. 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