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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Not in major roles admittedly, but I can't imagine there are a whole lot of Japanese-fluent non-Japanese actors in Japan looking to appear on what are (for the most part) kids shows.

There is that and just the fact that casting non-japanese actors these shows doesnt make sense from a cultural standpoint.

Thing with japan in comparison to say America is that the percentage of people that belong to another ethnicity that live in japan is very small. So of course Toei would want their target audience to identify with the Main Heroes. And the target audience is mostly japanese children and not foreigners. So to reflect that we get a cast that mostly consists of japanese actors.

For a japanese Kid seeing someone that is caucasian or african or anything that isnt japanese is still kinda weird. Its just not something that is part of their everyday lives.