The term Ethnic Japanese usually refers to people who live outside Japan, who either emigrated from Japan or are descendants of a person who emigated from Japan. The majority of them live in regions such as:

• United States, mostly California and Hawaii
• Brazil

There is a small ethnic Japanese community in North Korea, South Korea, China and Russia.

See also

• Japanese people
• Japanese American
• Japanese-Brazilian
• Japanese Canadian
• Japanese Filipino
• Japanese Russian
• Japanese Korean