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Midori Inagaki

Midori Inagaki

The Japan Times

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

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

Japan continues to draw an unspoken but influential boundary — one that sorts and evaluates people according to whether they can speak Japanese...

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Midori inagaki

Japan’s residency debate risks turning integration into exclusion

Japan is approaching a pivotal moment in its immigration history. As the 2024 revisions to immigration laws move toward implementation in 2027, the...

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The limits of Japan’s immigration charade

Following the Liberal Democratic Party’s electoral landslide last month, the government has once again affirmed a familiar contradiction: Japan will...

06.03.2026 100

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Midori inagaki