Tokyo Olympics: How quiet rebel Naomi Osaka is changing Japan
"It's not like Kei , who is a pure Japanese player."Baseball star Sachio Kinugasa was the son of an African-American GI and a Japanese woman, but his background and its significance was rarely discussed in the Japanese mediaNeither they nor the Japanese public were interested in talking about their American fathers, soldiers occupying the country after the Second World War, or the discrimination they faced.
Osaka entered the players' bubble at last year's US Open with a plan. She packed seven different face masks. One for each round of the tournament. Each with the name of a black American who died because of alleged police or racist violence. It runs a generation deeper as well. Osaka's mother and father migrated to the United States, when she was three, cut off by her disapproving maternal grandparents.
"In Japan, the tradition is to avoid conflict and argument. It's not like in America where you have that public to-and-fro. International footballer Kumi Yokoyama, 27, revealed last month that they were transgender and intended to transition fully to a man once they had retired from the sport. They explained how playing in the United States and Germany had made them aware of ignorance and prejudice in Japan.after appearing in Terrace House - a popular reality show.
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