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Beyond the native speaker myth: Who ‘owns’ the Japanese language?

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22.05.2026

Japan continues to draw an unspoken but influential boundary — one that sorts and evaluates people according to whether they can speak Japanese “like a native.” Even highly proficient speakers often find themselves kept........

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