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Japan is located just east of China. It is considered the most eastern country so it is nick-named ?The Land of the Rising Sun?. Japan is very rich in language, culture, and fashion. The Japanese language is very different from the English language. There are two different types of Japanese: Katakana and Hiragana. Hiragana is the older version. It has symbols and words meaning things like ?building? or ?stream. Katakana is the newer version of language. It has words and symbols for things like ?hamburger? or ?cell phone?. Such things are things that weren?t around when Hiragana was formed. There are also kanji, which are the writings of symbols, like letters in the Engl