Japan's name in America i)s Japan. In Japan, it is called Nippon or Nihon (日本). Officially it is called (日本国 Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku. This means the country where the sun rises.
They were called the samuri, and they were a Japanese warrior caste which provided the administrative and fighting aristocracy from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
Long ago, the Japanese had different names for each of their islands within the archipelago. Completely different names from what we now call them. The main island (now called Honshu) represented...