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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by adventured on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:13AM (#17276472)
> Being a foreigner is the issue there, not being a different race or ethnicity.

A convenient cover premise when the population is extraordinarily homogeneous: most of the foreigners are going to be another ethnicity and or race.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by icelancer on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:38AM (#17276558)
Yeah, weird.

Also, Yu Darvish got plenty of shit in his country before he became an elite pitcher in NPB - his father is Iranian. It wasn't just being a foreigner, Yu was full blooded Japanese, born there and everything.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by mariuolo on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:46AM (#17277074)
> Yu was full blooded Japanese

I suspect "full blooded Japanese" means Yamato on both sides to them.

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