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Clay having an ancestor in Sinnoh makes some sense, since he was stated to have been designed as a Japanese-American
>Ohmura: “Designing this character was incredibly difficult. First of all, he’s a tycoon and president of a mining company. And he’s also based on people of Japanese descent who live outside of Japan — we’ve heard about the kind of people who move abroad, and are out chasing the American Dream.
