日本....
일본인들은 여기의 내포된 뜻을 잘 알아야 한다.
극동에 있다하여 스스로를 비하하여 일본이라고 칭하는 W
스스로가 세계의 중심이 아닌, 변방의 존재라는 것을 인정하는 명칭
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APrince_Sh%C5%8Dtoku
This is supported by the following quote from a "Chinese book": 倭國乃日本國也. 本名倭旣恥其名. 又自以在極東因號日本也. 今則臣屬高麗也 - 郭若虛.《圖畵見聞志》 卷6. 高麗國 ("wa" is a Japan. Japanese think "wa" is a shameful country name, so they called their country as "nippon". Japan is a Vassal state of Korea. --Chinese book .《圖畵見聞志》
Googling for the qoute yields no results except this page and neither does googling for the name of the book (presumably 圖畵見聞志). There is no information on when the supposed book was written to support the claim that it describes the situation after the Ono no Imoko"s mission.
Arguing about who paid tribute to who in historical times is a favourite past time of Asian nationalists - the tone and style of English leads me to believe that this was added by a Korean nationalist eager to denigrate Japan"s past. When this article is cleaned up I think this part should be removed unless a reliable source (in a Western language) can be found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.61.120 (talk) 16:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Here is the reference.http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%9C%96%E7%95%AB%E8%A6%8B%E8%81%9E%E8%AA%8C/%E5%8D%B7%E5%85%AD 倭國乃日本國也. 本名倭旣恥其名. 又自以在極東因號日本也. 今則臣屬高麗也 - 郭若虛.《圖畵見聞志》 卷6. 高麗國] ("wa" is a Japan. Japanese think "wa" is a shameful country name, so they called their country as "nippon". Japan is a Vassal state of Korea. --Chinese book .《圖畵見聞志》 Kao no Nai Tsuki (talk) 15:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)