Group
Japanese people
The Japanese people are an ethnic group native to Japan.
Japanese make up 98.5% of the total population.
Worldwide, approximately one hundred and thirty million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately one hundred and twenty-seven million are residents of Japan.
People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries are referred to as nikkeijin.
The term ethnic Japanese may also be used in some contexts to refer to a locus of ethnic groups including the Yamato, Ainu, and Ryukyuan people.
Member Cities
- Amchitka Aleutian Islands Alaska United States Location
- Asuka Nara Japan Location
- Azuchi Shiga Japan Location
- Baoding Hebei (Hopeh) China Location
- Beijing (Peking) Beijing Shi (Peking) China Location
- Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt Location
- Chang'an > Xi'an Shaanxi (Shensi) China Location
- Changhang Ch'ungch'ong-namdo Korea, South Location
- Dazaifu Fukuoka Prefecture Kyushu Japan Location
- Edo > Tokyo Tokyo Japan Location
- Fujiidera Osaka Japan Location
- Fukuoka Fukuoka Japan Location
- Fukushima Fukushima Japan Location
- Gyeongju > Kyongju Kyongsang-bukto Korea, South Location
- Hamhung Hamgyong-namdo Korea, North Location
- Hangchow > Hangzhou Zhejiang (Chekiang) China Location
- Ikaruga Nara Japan Location
- Iki Island Nagasaki Japan Location
- Jeju > Cheju Cheju-do Korea, South Location
- Jiankang Jiangsu (Kiangsu) China Location
- Kaesong Kaesong-si Korea, North Location
- Kamakura Kanagawa Japan Location
- Kanazawa Ishikawa Japan Location
- Kano Yamaguchi Japan Location
- Kawachi-Nagano Osaka Japan Location
- Kawasaki Kanagawa Japan Location
- Kobe Hyogo Japan Location
- Kora Shiga Japan Location
- Kyoto Kyoto Japan Location
- Kyushu Island Japan Location
- Lovek Kampong Thum Cambodia Location
- Matsuyama Ehime Japan Location
- Morioka Iwate Japan Location
- Nagaoka-kyo Kyoto Japan Location
- Nagasaki Nagasaki Japan Location
- Naha Okinawa Japan Location
- Nara Nara Japan Location
- Narita Chiba Japan Location
- Ningbo Zhejiang (Chekiang) China Location
- Ogori Fukuoka Japan Location
- Oita Oita Japan Location
- Okhotsk > Ochotsk Khabarovskiy Kray Russia Location
- Omi Shiga Japan Location
- Osaka Osaka Japan Location
- Otsu Shiga Japan Location
- Petropavlovsk-Kamcatskij Kamchatskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Pusan Pusan-gwangyoksi Korea, South Location
- Queen Charlotte British Columbia Canada Location
- Rikuchu Kaigan National Park Iwate Japan Location
- Sakai Osaka Japan Location
- Sakurai Nara Japan Location
- San Francisco San Francisco California United States Location
- Sendai Miyagi Japan Location
- Seoul > Soul Soul-t'ukpyolsi Korea, South Location
- Shikanoshima Island Nagasaki Japan Location
- Shimonoseki Yamaguchi Japan Location
- Takada > Yamato-Takada Nara Japan Location
- Tokyo Tokyo Japan Location
- Tsuyama Okayama Japan Location
- Uji Kyoto Japan Location
- Ulleungdo Island Gyeongsang South Korea Location
- Usa Oita Japan Location
- Yamaguchi Yamaguchi Japan Location
- Yoshino Nara Japan Location