the Orient; Oriental country
Refers to Eastern countries, especially in a historical or literary context. Often used in contrast with 西邦 (the West).
He has a deep interest in the cultures of the Orient.
西洋 refers to the West, the geographic and cultural opposite of 東邦, which refers to the East.
東邦 shares the exact reading とうほう with 東方 but is a different word used mainly in proper nouns like school or company names, not for the direction east.
Compound of 東 (east) and 邦 (country). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning 'eastern country'.