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'Low IQ' kids, parental rights and problematic terminology dogged Japan's international community in 2019

Issues | JUST BE CAUSE Jan 6, 2020

'Low IQ' kids, parental rights and problematic terminology dogged Japan's international community in 2019

by Debito Arudou

Of the issues non-Japanese had to deal with in the past year (and even the past decade), some were major news stories and some fell quietly into the cracks.

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