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The selection of cross-cultural athletes to represent Japan at such times – unthinkable a few decades ago – comes as organizers bring in “diversity and inclusion” Olympic theme. But like many countries, Japan still has a lot of work to do. “What has become clear at this Olympics is that the government wants to use people of various races to show that Japan has become a global nation,” Lawrence Yoshitaka Shimoji of Ritsumeikan University, who wrote. a book about multiracial people, said. “On the other hand, the government doesn’t have any measures against discrimination,” he said, adding that there is no legal protection for people of mixed race from being bullied or hiring discrimination. Shimoji pointed to negative comments on social media after Osaka lit the cauldron, where some said the honor should have belonged to a “pure” Japanese. There are 2.9 million foreigners living in Japan, representing 2% of the population. According to official statistics, about 2% of children born every year have a non-Japanese parent.