1. a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building; [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Nippon
n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese
Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile
manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon,
Nihon]