By TAKAHIRO OGAWA/ Staff Writer
July 6, 2024 at 07:00 JST
This Japanese student with an overseas origin, seen here in Tokyo on May 23, was taken by a hiring company for a foreign student and was denied participation in a recruitment event. “I wished at that time that I didn’t have this name and this appearance,” she said. (Takahiro Ogawa)
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