In Japan, do they call themselves Japan?

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bulova6

If my memory serves me correctly from my 1 1/2 years of studying Japanese in college, Japan is translated as Nipon.

We say " Nihon" or "Nippon." I use both words usually. I don't know why but I just do.

Japan_is_home

No, we call our country "Nihon"　or "Nippon" (日本)
meaning the origin of the sun

seamonkeywater

Japan = Nihon or Nippon (にほん or にっぽん / 日本）
Japanese (person) = Nihonjin　（にほんじん / 日本人）
Japanese (language)= Nihongo (にほんご/ 日本語)

Miss Fashion

Nihon or Nippon

Joriental

The ppl in the east part of Japan call Nihon. The west side call Nippon.

Asa Rica

No. Nippon 日本.

charles p

No, they say Nippon

Bugaisha

Nihongo is the language. Nihonjin is the people. Nipon the country.

erlampo

Japan, Nihon and Nippon are all the same word. Japan is not a "translation" of Nihon, or vice-versa. See below:
WORD HISTORY Stamp collectors know that Nihon and Nippon on Japanese stamps mean “Japan”; what they probably don't know is that Nihon, Nippon, and Japan are all ultimately the same word. In the early part of the Chinese Tang dynasty—in A.D. 670, to be precise—Japanese scholars who had studied Chinese created a new name for their country using the Chinese phrase for “origin of the sun, sunrise,” because Japan is located east of China. In the Chinese of the time (called Middle Chinese), the phrase was nzyet-pwun. To this the scholars added the Chinese suffix –kwuk, “country,” yielding a compound nzyet-pwun-kwuk, “sun-origin-country, land of the rising sun.” The consonant clusters in the word were not pronounceable in Old Japanese, so the form was simplified to Nip-pon-gu or *Ni-pon-gu, the latter developing by regular sound change to Ni-hon-gu. The forms Nippon and Nihon of today are the same as these, minus the “country” suffix. Interestingly, the Chinese themselves took to calling Japan by the name that the Japanese had invented, and it is from the Chinese version of the name that English Japan is ultimately derived. In Mandarin Chinese, one of the forms of Chinese to develop from Middle Chinese, the phrase evolved to Rìběnguó, an early form of which was recorded by Marco Polo as Chipangu, which he would have pronounced as (chĭ-pän-gū) or (shĭ-pän-gū). The early Mandarin word was borrowed into Malay as Japang, which was encountered by Portuguese traders in Moluccas in the 16th century. These traders may have been the ones to bring the word to Europe; it is first recorded in English in 1577, spelled Giapan.

Discombobulated

Nihon or nippon is the country
Nihonjin are the people
Nihongo means Japanese

gogogo

Nihon.

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nippon
nihon
both are correct

twikfat

Mostly nihonjin or nipponjin. Nihon is Japan and jin is people, litterally meaning "people of Japan" = Japanese. Anyway yes they do refer to themselves as Japanese, for example they will say alot of the time "nihon de wa... " as for Japan, or "saikin Nihonjin wa..." "recently Japanese are..." its usually a very general statement, like the Japanese youth of today are rude... etc. Anyway, I dont think Western Countries usually refer to themselves by their nationality.

Peach Blossom

I'm quite sure they call themself Nihon. Nihon-go means japanese languange. Nippon is right also. Usually people from the west said it Nippon

Kazzy