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Wa (Japan)
Japanese
is the oldest recorded
name of Japan
. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese scribes regularly wrote
Wa
or
Yamato
"Japan" with the
Chinese character
倭 until the 8th century, when the Japanese replaced it with "harmony, peace, balance."
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