i used to believe that when the sun went down, it actually went down into the earth over in japan, and that's why it was called the land of the rising sun
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- At one point, i thought that "Where the Sun Don't Shine" and "The Land of The Rising Sun" where the same thing— A. Brone E.
- I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.— Luiz Alfonso
- When I was a child I used to believe that the steam rising from my food were ghosts. Anon
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - I used to think China and Japan where the same.— Lunarmoon
- when i was young i used to think japan and china were the same country— i like star wars