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That’s essentially my own question. It’s not specific to Japan. Do you want to answer it?

Yes, it's still the same country. And nobody's being replaced if the Japanese are reproducing at lower than replacement rate.

If you replace a country’s culture, it’s still the same country?

That's just called changing culture. This happens at each generation at least.

Japan's culture has arguably been almost completely replaced several times over. Is it still Japan?

Change is the only constant in nature

yes. A country is a series of lines on a map.

also did you mean to imply that culture is essentially tied to ethnicity? because it isn't.

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