Most of the time they can, but there are plenty of edge cases where it's difficult to tell apart. If you see enough Japanese, Chinese, and Korean people, even as a white person you'll develop a knack for telling them apart most of the time by facial features alone.
Source: I speak Japanese and this topic has come up many times with my Japanese coworkers. I can tell pretty well myself at this point too.
...i've been trying to learn japanese for almost twenty years now, and I can never find the discipline to stick to it long enough to learn more more than a few words...
...I was actually shocked how much spanish i learned by accident, however...
True, Japan is famously low-trust.
Japan rightly sees itself as a cut above the rest of that sewer of a continent. They should have been allowed to finish what they started in the 30s.
You can't tell the difference between Han and Yamato?
Even the Japanese really can't based on facial features
They only do so by behavior. I've been mistaken as a native multiple times
Most of the time they can, but there are plenty of edge cases where it's difficult to tell apart. If you see enough Japanese, Chinese, and Korean people, even as a white person you'll develop a knack for telling them apart most of the time by facial features alone.
Source: I speak Japanese and this topic has come up many times with my Japanese coworkers. I can tell pretty well myself at this point too.
...i've been trying to learn japanese for almost twenty years now, and I can never find the discipline to stick to it long enough to learn more more than a few words...
...I was actually shocked how much spanish i learned by accident, however...