of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language
<adj.pert> the Japanese Emperor Japanese cars
Nipponese \Nipponese\ n. [From Japanese nippon, Japan.] a native or inhabitant of Japan.
Syn: Japanese. [WordNet 1.5]
Nipponese \Nipponese\ adj. Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; Japanese. [WordNet 1.5]
In Robert Whiting's "You Gotta Have Wa" (Macmillan, 339 pages, $17.95), the Beatles give way to baseball, in the Nipponese version we would be hard put to call a "game."