re: Miss Japan, who is Ukranian, has to give up title after affair with married man

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Japanese” is a racial determination. It’s absolutely delusional to pretend otherwise. I could move to Japan and raise my kids there, and they’ll still never be Japanese.

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It is. It’s also a demonym referring to any national with Japanese citizenship, Mr. Overly Simplistic Reductionist.

So yes, even if your kids aren’t ethnically Japanese, they can still be Japanese by citizenship. It’s an entirely separate thing.