Ethnic Japanese may refer to:

  • Japanese people, an ethnic group native to Japan
    • Yamato people, the dominant native ethnic group of Japan
    • Ainu people, an indigenous people in Japan and Russia
    • Ryukyuan people, indigenous peoples of the Ryukyu Islands between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan
  • Japanese diaspora, emigrants from Japan and their descendants that reside in a foreign country
    • Ryukyuan diaspora, emigrants of Ryukyuan ethnicity and their descendants who reside outside of the Ryukyu Islands

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