What does Ni no Kuni mean exactly? The full title of the PS3 game is Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. Google Translate fails when I try to use the kanji, and the closest I can get is by writing the whole phrase in hiragana, which Google translates to:


  The country of the


However, the title would become The country of the Wrath of the White Witch, which doesn't seem to make sense. Of course, this is dependent on a Google machine translation, so it might not even be reliable.

So I am wondering, what does Ni no Kuni mean given the context of the game?
According to the Ni no Kuni article on Wikipedia, it literally means Second Country or Country of Two.

So the final title is either:


The Country of Two: The Wrath of the White Witch
Second Country: The Wrath of the White Witch


Despite the difference in wording, they generally mean the same thing, which in essence is a country with two sides to it, e.g. two faces, dimensions, etc. This makes sense since the premise of the game is to travel between Oliver's world – world 1 and the parallel world – world 2 – world of magic (which is magically linked to Oliver's world) in order for Oliver to find a way to save his mother.