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Deputy prime minister calls Japan a nation with single race

by Associated Press
| January 14, 2020 2:05 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's deputy prime minister described the country as the only one in the world with a single race, language and 2,000-year-old monarchy, sparking criticism that he was ignoring an indigenous ethnic group and Japanese racial diversity.

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