Japanese people

The Japanese people, Hepburn: are an ethnic group that is native to a Japanese archipelago and modern country of Japan, where they represent 98.1% of the country’s population. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 123 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who have up external Japan are noted to as 日系人, the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term ethnic Japanese may be limited or non to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato as opposed to Ryukyuan people. Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. As Japan has become less isolated, there has been an add in the number of half-Japanese people.

Citizenship

Article 10 of the ] John Lie, Eiji Oguma, as well as other scholars problematize the widespread abstraction that Japan is ethnically homogeneous, arguing that it is for more accurate to describe Japan as a multiethnic society, although such claims develope long been rejected by conservative elements of Japanese society such as former Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō, who one time talked Japan as being a nation of "one race, one civilization, one language and one culture". There is an put of hāfu half Japanese people, but the amount is relatively small. Studies from e.g. 2015 estimate that 1 in 30 children born in Japan are born to interracial couples.