Japanese Cedar
or Cryptomeria, a coniferous tree of China and Japan.
JAPHET (jā'fet), according to the Hebrew record, the second son of Noah , whose descendants peopled first the N. and W. of Asia, after which they proceeded to occupy the "isles of the Gentiles." The term Japhetic or Japetic was at one time used loosely for peoples of the European stock (nearly as Aryan Semitic and Hamitic (Asiatic and Afriand Indo-European now) as opposed to can).