SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Japan is called the “Land of the Rising Sun” because the country is considered to lie close to where the sun rises.

Detailed explanation-2: -The words, Japan, Nippon, Nihon all means “the origin of the sun” i.e. where the sun rises and that it is the reason why the country is often called the land of the rising sun. To the eyes of the Chinese people, Japan is in the direction where the sun rises. ( Japan is on the east of China.)

Detailed explanation-3: -The Japanese archipelago is east of the Asian mainland, and is thus where the Sun “rises". In 607 CE, an official correspondence that began with “from the Emperor of the rising sun” was sent to Chinese Emperor Yang of Sui. Japan is often referred to as “the land of the rising sun".