I’m happy she beat the arrogant and shameful Serena, but I’d prefer that if she plays under the Japanese flag that she actually BE Japanese.
Look, I have translated for 100% ethnic Japanese people who were visiting Japan from the USA and Canada, and those people weren’t Japanese BY A MILE.
Does she UNDERSTAND Japanese? Probably. Is she 50% Japaense..? Yes, she is, and that means something.
IS she Japanese..?
No freakin way.
Her dad for BUSINESS REASONS designated her as “Japanese”, a little like Tiger’s long-seperated parents pretending they were lovey-dovey, one big, happy family.
What you have in the Osaka/Serena match is a somewhat nice scammer triumphing over an unsportmanlike narciccist:
An improvement, yes, but it still looks sorta bad.
The Olympics is full of people - especially in track and field - fighting to register as citizens of little and isolated countries so they can compete in the Olympics.