Why is Japan the land of the rising sun?

I have always known my country as the land from which the sun rises. But today I was wondering why this is true only for Japan. If you ignore clock and compass, any point in the world is where the sun rises from. The sun was always worshiped by people everywhere in the world so why didn't any peoples in the West ever call their country the land of the rising sun?

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