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I find it surprising that 1 out of 30 Japanese babies has a non-Japanese parent. However, statistics are statistics and there is no denying the truth. Around 19,000 of the babies had non-Japanese fathers, 26,000 had non- Japanese mothers.
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One in thirty? That sounds about right. Keep the mudbloods to a minimum!
Really? I found it surprising, maybe I have just been misinformed in the past. Mudbloods? Pssh...Are you a wizard?
Wizards? Mudbloods? Are we talking about golem as in the kind born of clay in Jewish folklore? Hehe.
what's that famous quote?
oh, yeah.
"lies, damn lies, and statistics..."
I feel like I heard somewhere that 1 in 10 marriages in Tokyo was between a Japanese and a non-Japanese. Anyone else here that?
"Three demographic features of foreign brides in Japan today are highlighted. First, of the total number of newly married couples, the proportion that has one foreign spouse has increased dramatically over the years (1965: .44%; 1990: 3.55%; 2005: 5.81%)."
Taken from: Interracial Marriage in Japan: A Strategy to Maintain Rural Farm Households By Fumie Kumagai, Professor of Sociology, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
Remember that those figures are nationwide, so 10% in Tokyo in 2008 sounds very likely.
@jcollin3k: Thats interesting, I did not know this.
@LongCountdown: thanks for the info, very useful for me to know this, For future reference, and endeavors hehe.