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"What we see on TV and in magazines regarding mixed-raced celebrities is great in terms of a seeming mainstream acceptance to this emerging demographic, by a notably homogenous society, but this doesn't exactly paint a perfect picture of the challenges faced by mixed-race people in Japan," Keiko Gono, a sociologist and parent of a mixed-race teenager, told Xinhua.
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