it s something ariana miyamoto knows as well. back in 2016, she also caused shock here, becoming the first mixed race women to be crowned miss universe japan. watching the olympic opening ceremony, ariana says she was pretty sceptical. translation: i don t know why they were chosen. - it seems like it was to get good publicity. japan has a lot of mixed race celebrities and sports stars. biracial people are often held up as being more beautiful, even more intelligent. but ariana says within that, there is still a hierarchy. translation: half-white people are greatly celebrated injapan, but when it comes to half black people, it s different. when i was working as a model, i was told that a lot of japanese wouldn t want the clothes that i wear since my skin colour is very different. so they wouldn t allow me to model their outfits.
translation: i don t know why they were chosen. i it seems like it was to get good publicity. japan has a lot of mixed race celebrities and sports stars. biracial people are often held up as being more beautiful, even more intelligent. but ariana says within that, there is still a hierarchy. translation: half-white people are greatly celebrated injapan, but when it comes to half black people, it s different. when i was working as a model, i was told that a lot of japanese wouldn t want the clothes that i wear since my skin colour is very different. so they wouldn t allow me to model their outfits. i kind of look at japan as a. ryan mcneil is a writer who has lived in japan for 17 years. he says naomi osaka lighting the olympic cauldron will not change the fact that
wingfield hayes reports. it was the crowning moment of the opening ceremony and a big surprise two of japan s most famous mixed race athletes given the honour of leading the team and lighting the cauldron. but in the two weeks since, naomi 0saka in particular has been targeted with online abuse, with some questioning whether she is really japanese. it s something ariana miyamoto knows as well. back in 2016, she also caused shock here, becoming the first mixed race women to be crowned miss universe japan. watching the olympic opening ceremony, ariana says she was pretty sceptical. translation: i don t know why they were chosen. - it seems like it was to get good publicity. japan has a lot of mixed race celebrities and sports stars. biracial people are often held up as being more beautiful, even more intelligent. but ariana says within that, there is still a hierarchy.
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Editor’s note: In referring to Black people in this article, the author chooses not to capitalize “black” until substantive transformation of American police enforcement and the criminal justice system that results in the criminal prosecution of those who use excessive force and produces a quantifiable, long-term reduction in the number of police killings and brutalization of black people is realized.
Japan should be proud of Rui Hachimura. The 23-year-old Toyama Prefecture native, who is of Beninese Japanese descent, is only the second Japanese-born basketball player to be drafted by the NBA (the first being Yasutaka Okayama in 1981), where he’s now a power forward for the Washington Wizards.