和 is more about harmony then about peace. When ever Japanese offer a japanese and western kind of thing they call the non-japanese 洋-something, in opposite to the japanese 和-something. 洋 means sea or ocean and implies from over the the seas ... as prefix to another word: foreign; Western; European In classical chinese 和 is the first chinese name for Japan. Most Japanese associate with the harmony 和 anything Japanese ...
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where are you from? are you japanese... or studing japanese?
neither ... just a stupid German, who travels to Japan every year (fuck corona) and learned some Japanese ...
get it now. :)
What a mystery behind this word woah!!!
Beautiful ..