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    … the former Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō, who once described Japan as a nation which is inhabited by people who are members of “one race, one civilization, one language and one culture”

    This doesn’t only impact people who are not ethnically Japanese. It also impacts native born Japanese people by implicitly “otherizing” anyone who might criticize or work to change the status quo there.