Names of Japan of the islands and the possibility to access precious ores without resorting to (unavailable) deep-mining technologies. The Dutch name, Japan, may be derived from the southern Chinese pronunciation of , "Yatbun" or "Yatpun". The Dutch "J" is generally pronounced "Y", hence Ja-Pan. The modern Shanghainese pronunciation of Japan is "Zeppen" . In modern Japanese, "Cipangu" is transliterated as which in turn can be transliterated into English as "Chipangu", "Jipangu", "Zipangu", "Jipang", or "Zipang". "Jipangu" ( ("Zipangu")) as an obfuscated name for Japan has recently come into vogue for Japanese films, anime, video games, etc. These names were invented after the
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