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The cultural significance differences that the Native English Speaker Teachers are making in Japan is something that got me quite intrigued with this article. I am curious if the invitation from the Japanese government for people to immigrate to Japan to combat their declining population issue is why the culture swap is happening. Maybe this is a bias opinion and I am not open enough to change when it is presented in front of me here in the USA – however, it seems as if the Native English Speaker Teachers are making cultural enough impacts on the university students in Japan while immigrant cultural impacts are not happening nearly as rapidly or at all in the western world. 
I didn't really quite understand all the numbers meanings and statistical analysis graphs shown throughout the article, but that's mainly because I don't understand most math of any sorts.
I would be curious to a follow up article in a few more years to see the cultural significance differences to see how much more has changed between these Native English Speaker Teachers and their students.
While I understand the importance stated in this article and the reasoning for focusing at the university level, I also yearn for the a more extended bit of research for the entire county of Japan. Does the cultural significance differences extend beyond this level or do they stop there because of the direct influence that the Native English Speaker Teachers has there?
Furthermore, in general I would perhaps prefer more in depth interviews and stories from all those who partook the study that is cited in the article. I think that would make it a bit easier for people who can't understand numbers well like myself to understand the true significance that the article is intending to have it's readers understand.

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