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There are many minority groups in Japan, such as the indigenous Ainu of northern Japan, who were historically marginalized and still suffer educational and economic inequalities. In fact, the Ainu were only formally recognized by the Japanese Government as indigenous to Japan in 2008, and only then under pressure from the United Nations. The Buraku people are often referred to as Japans invisible race. The Buraku were socially discriminated against because of their occupations, considered impure since they dealt with blood and death as butchers and tanners. Although they do not differ in their appearance from mainstream Japanese people, they have suffered and continue to face discrimination when their ancestry surfaces. In online discussion groups, human resources staff often admit their departments carry out routine investigations regarding a job applicants potential Buraku taint. Their findings weigh heavily in their hiring decisions.With the increase of foreign migrants and international marriages, Japan is also becoming more visibly diverse. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, in 1965, a total of 4,156 marriages in Japan were between Japanese and non-Japanese. By 2013, this number had increased to 21,488. Today, each year brings more than 20,000 hafus into the world, accounting for approximately 2% of Japans total births. Yet Japanese people continue to maintain that theirs is an ethnically homogenous nation. In one way, thats true: in 2013, Japans foreign population accounted for less than 1%. However, the Japanese Census does not take race or ethnicity into consideration. As a result, a naturalized citizen or a hafu would simply be counted as Japanese. In other words, the Census does not allow any minority group to identify as anything more than Japanese, thus perpetuating the myth of ethnic homogeneity. In more recent years, Japan has seen the rise of the hafu celebrity. Although hafus have been prominent in Japan since about the mid-1960s, they tended to deemphasize their hafu status (particularly after World War II) and its associations with being low-class and the product of American servicemen and panpan girls (prostitutes). Now, the hafu image has changed dramatically, and hafus especially White onesare associated with being attractive and multilingual, assumed to hail from cosmopolitan, upper-middle class families. Further, the hafu celebrities are appreciated on Japanese television because they serve as a sort of bridge between the foreign world and Japanese society. They look foreign and are known by their first names, which are almost always in English (e.g., Becky, Shelly, Anthony, Joy), yet they are knowledgeable about the Japanese language, foods, mannerisms, and culture. By getting to know hafus on television, Japanese people can feel that they are part of a tolerant, globalized society without actually having to deal with cultural, racial/ethnic, or linguistic differences.