The "racist stereotype" reason, I'm assuming, is a mistranslation of this Takeshi Shudo blog entry where he talks about why Kenji was brought in to replace Takeshi. Here's my translation:
It's worth pointing out that Mr. Taguchi made it a point to say "might" a bunch of times when answering the question. I think that's probably a Japanese cultural thing; you don't want to just outright say "no" and so you give the most vague non-answer you can.
I don't have magazine myself (yet) but here's what Pokémon Matome reports:
Characters will the past will regularly show up (Yasuda). The scan of the relevant portion of the interview the site posted reads "Of course, characters from the past will also show up regularly so we hope those who have...
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