Japan's hafu stars are celebrated. But some mixed-race people say they feel like foreigners in their own country

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Credit: Photo Illustration/ Tetsuro Miyazaki / Photo Illustration/ Tetsuro Miyazaki

"Excuse me, are you hafu?" the taxi driver asked. Anna, a woman of mixed Japanese and American heritage, was in a taxi en route to a party in Tokyo last year when she was asked that question, and says she had half expected it.

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