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I see the words white and black but can not recall a reference to Japanese
with regards to color.
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What term is used to describe the color of the Japanese race?
There is no term to describe the color of the Japanese race. There is only the
word "Asain"(アジア人) or "Japanese"(日本人) that is used when referred to the race.
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黄色【おうしょく】人種【じんしゅ】 or 黄色【おうしょく】人【じん】 (lit. "yellow race") is the Japanese term
used to refer to [Mongoloids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoloid), which
includes most east Asian people. The idea of roughly categorizing people of
the world as one of 白色人種 (Caucasoid), 黒色人種 (Negroid) and 黄色人種 (Mongoloid) has
been widely accepted at least here in Japan. According to Wikipedia, however,
it's no longer considered as a biologically valid classification.

While 黄色人種 is generally accepted as jargon, that does not mean Japanese people
widely believe their own skin is 黄色 (yellow). You should use
[肌色](http://jisho.org/search/%E8%82%8C%E8%89%B2) to refer to the color of
average Japanese people, which is somewhere between thin pink and yellow.
Actually some people may feel offended when they're referred to as 黄色い肌の人 or
something like that. I'd rather not go into detail, but see [the discussion
here](https://www.quora.com/Why-is-yellow-an-offensive-term-in-the-United-
States-when-used-to-describe-someone-of-East-Asian-descent-while-it-is-
inoffensive-to-refer-to-someone-of-Caucasian-descent-as-white-or-someone-of-
African-descent-as-black?srid=uuAqn).
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