How many people have you introduced to thought Ayumi was white?

[Diana]

Originally Posted by immel

My parents said they think she looks quite European rather than Asian although they knew from the start she's from Japan.

The same When I showed my mom CDL 2004/2005 the part when she sang evolution, Trauma... She said that she doesnt like Japanese and that she likes her XD And yes, I told her first that she was from Japan

[criminal]

Well, the shape of her eyes is different enough, so if I'd introduce her to someone, I'm sure they'd go "LOL A CHINEEZ PURSON!!!!1!".

[Dustie]

I don't believe anyone would actually look at her and not be able to tell she's Asian right away...
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[extepan]

she's so asian...and yet my mom keeps saying that her eyes are too big for japanese. i dont agree though.

[oro77]

Originally Posted by extepan

she's so asian...and yet my mom keeps saying that her eyes are too big for japanese. i dont agree though.

same for my mom. She told me she must have non japanese parents or non japanese ancestors.

[Chibi_Venus]

I don't think so. Only because I've said that she's Japanese before I've showed a picture.

My friend, however, has said she looks American, but she's my best friend and knows that she's 100% Japanese.

She admits that Ayu looks Asian in the No way to say PV, but also admitted that she looks quite American in the Bold & Delicious PV (most likely because of the NY setting?).

[Setsunai]

Wow, never happened to me. Probably because I introduced them to her music before her appearance.

[Chandrachan]

My mum knew that Ayu's Japanese by just looking at her...even when I first saw Ayu I was like yeah she's Asian but not Caucasian

[Larisa-chan]

My mom looked at the MY STORY CD cover and thought she was white~

[Catzi]

She has a clear Asian looking face.

[Weslicious]

I can see how now people may get confused just by looking at more recent pictures. Just looking at the sigs and such in this thread (Chibi Venus, extepan and Hybrid Theory) you wouldn't instantly jump to her being Japanese/Asian. She was typically Japanese looking in the early days though so no confusion there.
Are you introducing her right though? This is Ayumi Hamasaki, a J-Pop star? Not much room for people to not know she's Japanese there.

[Surreal]

I just knew her as Japanese but she never did look conventionally Japanese with her make up on.