Definition of "nihon" [nihon]

• A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "With a quick search for the key phrases “japan”, “nippon”, “nihon” and “tokyo” and a sort, I condensed the 600 or more hits down to the short list below of the top twenty most visited Japan-related domain names."
• "Keidanren discussion about “monozukuri no nihon” is also about this obsession around quality and focus on craft rather than on the “money game”"
• "Japanese consumers were once so rich they would be willing to spend premium prices on high-quality items and due to cartels often had no choice, but now the kings of retail are not monozukuri no nihon but Uniqlo, Nitori, Shimamura, etc."