non-Japanese

adjective

non-Jap·​a·​nese ˌnän-ˌja-pə-ˈnēz 

-ˈnēs

: not of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan or its people : not Japanese

non-Japanese automakers

Americans of non-Japanese descent

Examples of non-Japanese in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Getting the Gestures Wrong Nonverbal communication can get non-Japanese speakers a long way, but be aware that not all gestures translate. — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026

Japan maintains a complex certification process for government software that is conducted almost exclusively in Japanese, which disadvantages non-Japanese providers. — Leonard Lim, Fortune, 10 June 2026

Therefore our customers are a mix of Japanese-speaking customers and non-Japanese speakers who are interested in Japanese culture. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2026

In 2023, Wall Street research firm Bernstein Research reported that Crunchyroll (40 percent) and Netflix (42 percent) controlled 82 percent of the overseas (non-Japanese) anime streaming market. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 2 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for non-Japanese

• actuaries
• analyses
• anopheles
• antitheses
• apostrophes
• appendices
• catalyses
• distributees
• examinees
• hypotheses
• interviewees
• isosceles