>>35971626Actually super interesting read you just made me have, but in short:
>first Europeans to get to Japan were Portoguese, at Nagasaki>Nagasaki has an EXTREME thick dialect compared to the rest of Japan, "“Nippon” which you can read like "Ni-Pon" gets translated to "Ia-pam">Jesuits got influenced by that, when they got back to Europe they made a text to translate Japanese called "Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam", so everyone started calling it "Ia-pam" -> "Japan". 