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