nihonjinron

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What does nihonjinron mean?

A genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.

Where does nihonjinron come from?

Japanese 日本人論, literally "theories/discussions about the Japanese".

How to pronounce nihonjinron

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