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[–]denverkris 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And she still would not be ethnically Japanese, which I think was the point here.

[–]Lapis_Lazuli 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, but I think a person who is legally and culturally Japanese could very reasonably say "I am Japanese" even if she were not ethnically Japanese. (I grant you that people who meet this description are rare, but they do exist; I have met one.) Pinning down ethnicity and nationality can be complex—people immigrate, people hold dual citizenship, people come from mixed-ethnicity backgrounds. With rare exceptions for intersex people, sex is always straightforward.