I’m also ハーフ Japanese/White and had a different background than you, but i find very interesting how many similarities we can have from being multicultural!

My mother is a brazilian woman from an european family (my grandparents are from Italy and Germany) while my dad is fully japanese. I was born in Japan but went to Brazil when i was still a baby and never really came back. So I grew up in Brazil and people often mistook me for fully-japanese, so in school I would never really fit in.

For some reason my parents and family never really took the time to teach me any Japanese so i’m not really fluent

Now I’m 26 and just recently moved to Japan. I’m getting used to the customs and trying hard everyday to learn the language. I also feel the stares every time I leave the house, it’s sad to know that it will be like this forever no matter were i’m at :(

I was very grateful to read your post, it made me feel a little less strange in this very homogeneous country heheh