kaz@ivebeenframed.com (Kaz) wrote in message news:<365fcc52.0305291840.7b936ae6@posting.google.com>...
> "John R. Yamamoto- Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote in message news:<bb4t2j$22nv$1@kanna.cc.sophia.ac.jp>...
> > Derek Smallsbury wrote:
> > 
> > > > "British" and "Japanese" are races?
> > 
> > Kaz replied:
> > 
> > > I think they merely refer to those who inhabit in the islands, not race.
> > 
> > I think there is a difference in the way the two terms are applied. For
> > instance, it makes perfectly good sense to talk of "Black British", but you
> > are unlikely to hear anyone referring to "Black Japanese". 
> 
> Because historically we don't have any relationship between Africa. 

I hear terms like nikkei amerika-jin and nikkei burajiru-jin often in
Japan. They are people born in America or Brazil who have Japanese
roots.

Following this logic, John's kids should be called igirisu-kei
nihonjin, and zainichi kankokujin should be kankokukei nihonjin if
they were born and raised in Japan.

Mukade