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Ridgewood NJ, in Japan, he’s known as “Gojira” — a name derived from the Japanese words gorira (meaning “gorilla”) and kujira (meaning “whale”). In America, he’s “Godzilla”, a name that’s part deity and part mystery: “God” combined with the suffix “zilla” — which has no literal meaning but has since become synonymous with anything towering, monstrous, or overpowering, inspiring terms like “Bridezilla” and “Momzilla.”
