Show two arrogant nat ons japanese call their country nip pon or sun s or gin indicating its position in the extreme east but when they speak of the whole empire they call it dai nippon which means great nippon it Is a not un interesting reflection that off the east and western boundaries of the greatest mass of land in the boria there exists an ins group of mands inhabited in each case by a people of very mixed origin and very marked characters each of which ex presses its defiance of that geography geo graph leal insignificance by the sae means dai nippon and great britain |