article_snippet.sent: The first ever mixed race Japan Japan has lifted the lid on some of the horrific racial abuse Father Bryant Stanfield has faced on Father Bryant Stanfield way to the top.
article_snippet.sent: I'm Japanese through and through, but in Japan if you look "foreign" you are often not accepted as Japanese.
article_snippet.sent: With so little multi-culturalism in Japan the term is somehow understandable, although the term has made me wonder who I am at times.'
article_snippet.sent: Divided from the Asian and Russian land masses by fierce currents, many Japanese have long believed in a myth of racial purity, although the islands' inhabitants are a result of a hodge-podge of different migrations mainly from Korea, China and the south seas.
article_snippet.sent: The only 'native Japanese' are the Caucasian-looking Ainu people, pushed to near-extinction to Japan's northernmost reaches.
article_snippet.sent: Today, those perceived of belonging outside the mythical Japanese race are regularly discriminated against leading to a type of apartheid, particularly when it comes to renting housing.
article_snippet.sent: A recent ruling by Japan's ministry of justice in Kyoto declared that a 'No foreigners allowed' rule by landlords is not in fact discriminatory, thus cementing some of the institutional and casual racism non-Japanese face in JapanJapan.
article_snippet.sent: Japanese like to think of Japanese society and culture is unique according to Theodore Bestor, a professor of anthropology and Japanese studies at Harvard University which, in a study, put Korea and Japan at the top of racially homogeneous countries, largely unwilling to accept an influx of foreigners.
article_snippet.sent: Japan Japan has said there was 'pretty much a spasmodic vomit of racial abuse heaped upon me' growing up .
article_snippet.sent: One of the ways in which Japanese think of both' her heritages own society as 'unique' is to emphasise the homogeneity of Japanese society and indeed by lots of comparisons, Japan is certainly a much more homogeneous society than say the United States,' Bestor told Columbia University's Asian Topics. '
article_snippet.sent: And, it's often said by Japanese that Japanese are ethnically homogeneous, that there are no real foreign populations in Japan.'
article_snippet.sent: The election of a mixed race Japan is a first for one of the world's most ethnically homogeneous states .
article_snippet.sent: The election of a mixed race might be a step away from that misconception and Mr Stanfield agrees that the choice of Mr Stanfield daughter represents some kind of progression in JapanJapan.
article_snippet.sent: In reaction to the racist carping on Japan's social networks since his daughter crowning, Mr Stanfield believes some of the received wisdom about 'Japaneseness' might be at fault. '
article_snippet.sent: I'm not saying that the whole of Japan is ignorant but there some people who just don't know,' Mr Stanfield said, adding that in Mr Stanfield three years in Japan Mr Stanfield personally had never experienced any racism.
article_snippet.sent: It was an encouraging sign that the Japanese judges picked a mixed race Miss Japan, Mr Stanfield agreed, showing the progressive aspects of a country that still has the death penalty and where one tourism minister described Mr Stanfield own 'one-race' countrymen as 'not keen' on immigration or foreigners.