There are discourses on Japanese people from the view of cultural anthropology or the study of sociology, while many books are also written by Japanese writers and published in order to emphasize especially their own peculiarity based on their feelings of nationalism.
文化人類学、社会学的研究としての日本人論もある一方で、民族主義的心情に基づく日本人自身による自国、自民族の特殊性を殊更強調するように書いた論考も数多く出版されている。