How to Use non-Japanese in a Sentence

non-Japanese

adjective
  • There are, however, diners who are still skeptical over enjoying sake with non-Japanese cuisine— even more so with Thai cuisine.
    — Cheryl Tiu, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Shokuhin sampuru are famously helpful to non-Japanese-speaking visitors to Japan.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • But then every year, for example, with the countdown events in the years, the crowd that gathered in Shibuya, the percentage of non-Japanese citizens gathered there, the international crowd became more and more and more until maybe half of the people were international.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Among the non-Japanese manufacturers, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, and BYD made the biggest impressions.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
  • As Bobby’s business partner, Chane’s non-Japanese Asian heritage adds some nuance to the authenticity conflict with Yoshido, who refuses to become Robata Chane’s new supplier of binchōtan charcoal, as well as some good Chane-is-dumb jokes.
    — Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025

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