Naomi Osaka, a Japanese contestant in the U.S. Open finals for women, beat  Serena Williams in the U.S. Open. She beat the previous champion to become the first Japanese-born tennis player to win a Grand Slam Championship.

This is huge in Japan, inspiring many to keep playing Tennis and become like her. Both girls and boys look at her as an example, and motivation to become better. Still some though, see her as a disgrace, and even though the newer generation is starting to accept all people and those of Japanese decent in Japan there are those that dislike her because she is also of Haitian-American decent. People in Japan going as far as to say that she is a disgrace and that she does not belong in Japan.

It will be interesting to see what happens though, given that Japan is currently in the middle of a population decline and is in need of more people. Japan has been letting a lot of people of Japanese decent back into the country who have left in past. This means that with them they bring different cultures, religions, and ways of living. Something that many generations in japan have never had to deal with before. This is leaving the community at large divided in two. Some thinking Japan should stay a purist community while others think they should let all people in to expand the community and grow the population. As of right now it seems that over all Naomi Osaka’s win is helping the Japanese community come together, but we still need to see if the acceptance of more diverse communities in Japan will follow through as well.