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Gwen Stefani says she's Japanese in response to cultural appropriation charges

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"I said, 'My God, I’m Japanese and I didn't know it,'" Stefani told Allure, adding, "I am, you know."

Gwen Stefani came under fire Tuesday after she said in a new interview that she's Japanese. In an interview with Allure magazine, Stefani, 53, who is Italian American, cited the influence of Japanese culture in her home when she was growing up. She described her father's travel to Japan for his job at Yamaha and how he'd tell her stories about "performers cosplaying as Elvis and stylish women with colorful hair," the article says. "That was my Japanese influence and that was a culture that was so rich with tradition, yet so futuristic [with] so much attention to art and detail and…

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