Japanese Prime Minister urged to embrace apartheid for foreign workers

‘An adviser on education policies to Japan’s right-wing government has sparked a furore by recommending that immigrants in the world’s third-largest economy be separated by race.

In a column for the conservative Sankei newspaper, Ayako Sono said apartheid-era South Africa showed that whites, Asians and blacks should live apart. “Black people fundamentally have a philosophy of large families,” she wrote. “For whites and Asians, it was common sense for a couple and two children to live in one complex. But blacks ended up having 20 to 30 family members living in a single unit.”’

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