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Nihonjinron

Nihonjinron noun: a genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.

Noun

Nihonjinron (uncountable)

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

Origin of Nihonjinron

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

Questions about Nihonjinron

What does Nihonjinron mean?
Nihonjinron means a genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.
What part of speech is Nihonjinron?
Nihonjinron is a noun.

Words near Nihonjinron in the dictionary

  1. Nihonbashi
  2. nihonga
  3. Nihonglish
  4. Nihongo
  5. nihonium
  6. Nihonjinron
  7. Nihonmatsu
  8. NIHR
  9. Nihung
  10. Nihungs
  11. NII

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