The country of Japan is not just a country of sakura,However, the popular one is also known as the sunrise nation.
So, what's the reason for giving the title to the land of the sun?
I think I read in the article from the @culturetrip report. In about the 7th or 8th century, the Japanese name changed from wakoku to nihon.
Furthermore, some records describe all of this as a result of a Japanese envoy who had gone to China.
Then the party from China asked to change my name of wakoku for not liking him. While other records state that the Chinese empress wu zetian ordered the Japanese to change her name.
Literally,Nihon (日本) It means where the sun comes from. It refers to the fact that Japan is on the east side of China and the location of the rising sun.
Whereas the reporting from the world atlas, according to Chinese historical records, Japan was originally called wa (wo), with reference to Japanese people. Then changed to yamato in the 5th century c.e., since the yamato group was dominated at the time.
While elsewhere I read, in about 600 AD the Japanese prince, shotoku, introduced the influence of China like a calendar to Buddhism. Shotoku also made the first reference to Japan as the land of the rising sun.
At the time, he introduced himself as the land of the rising sun in 607 c.e. when writing to emperor sui and calling himself the son of heaven in the land of the rising sun. Sui dynasty then used the term nihon when referring to Japan, because the sun came out of Japan.