[Kang Seung Jae]

Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf

Let's see...from the AD&D Forgotten Realms Oriental Adventures Campaign Set, there were two countries based on Japan. One was called Wa (not terribly inventive; it was based roughly on Tokugawa Japan), the other was called Kozakura (roughly based on early Sengoku Jidai Japan).

I don't recall that the fiefs in Sengoku Japan had individual names. There were traditional names for each province, or the clan names that ruled a given area. So perhaps nations named after the ruling family/zaibatsu? That idea was used in the Amtrak Wars series written by Patrick Tilley (although he applied the idea to a post-apocalyptic USA, not Japan).

Wa would probably be 和 or 倭. Kozakura COULD be 小桜, a family name.

Kozakura does seem nice, given the "Sakura" at the end


I guess maybe I should start going for the "name versions" of kanji, where you pronounce a character differently from its regular sound..