Proper noun

1. Japan
   • 1619: W. W. Gent, A Briefe Relation of the Persecution Lately Made Against the Catholike Crhstians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, vol. 1, p. 6

     becauſe theſe moſt worthy Chriſtiãs of Iaponia whereof this relatiõ doth entreate be of the ſame Chriſtian and Catholike Fayth and Religon [sic] that you be

   • 1702: Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations of the State of Man in this Life, And in That which is to come, 6th ed., p. 193

     THE Tyrants of Japonia invented a ſtrange Torment for thoſe who confeſſed Chriſt