If I remember correctly it is a contraction of Nippon Sanyo - "Japan
Industry"
Leigh Brooks
BADROC
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Thomas - Sweden <csp311@telia.com>
Reply-To: Thomas - Sweden <csp311@telia.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:25:48 +0200
>Does anyone know what the word Nissan actually mean
>in Japanese? My word processor translate the characters
>to "Daily output factory" in plain Engrish.
>
>Thomas
>
>The Dread Pirate Roberts wrote:
>
>> In which case Nissan would be 2MR...
>>
>> SLBESQ@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> > In a message dated 4/17/02 7:10:44 AM Pacific Daylight
Time,
>> > svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Seems to me that MR2 = San Ni, not Nissan...
>> >
>> > except that the japanese don't put the "san" in front of the
name, they put it behind,
>> > as in "hiroshi-san"
>>
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