One person said, “I’m Japanese. Stop making Asian characters Black. We’re not Disney characters.” This comment received 342,000 likes. The image even made it into Japanese forums like Yaraon.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Morgan Garcia-Lamarca’s bare back elicits gasps and wide eyes from those who glimpse the 14-inch-long Japanese proverb inscribed down his spine. The four black, broad ...

There are black Japanese, white Japanese, brown Japanese, Muslim Japanese, etc etc. So maybe it's nice a game might just help some people see Japan and Japanese, as a place becoming more diverse. So ...

Japanese, Black Californians search for ‘ethical solidarity’ with state reparations movement By Shaanth Kodialam. Updated July 14, 2023 12:42 PM.

An curved arrow pointing right. Kurozu is Japanese black vinegar made using a 200-year-old technique of naturally fermenting ingredients outdoors in giant clay pots. It takes at least a year until ...

Japanese stocks on Monday experienced their largest single-day drop since the 1987 Black Monday crash, driven by global market declines and economic concerns.

Only 30% of U.S. adults surveyed by the Pew Research Center in 2021 supported reparations for slavery, 77% of whom were Black Americans. Support among Latinos and Asians was 39% and 33% ...

A number of Japanese period dramas about Yasuke have been produced, and he has appeared as a character in the manga series Hyouge Mono, The Man Who Killed Nobunaga, and Nobunaga's Chef.

Japanese Pop Artist Yayoi Kusama Apologizes for Horribly Racist Remarks Despite Still Being Racist ... Kusama’s 1971 play “Tokyo Lee” calls its sole Black character a “WILD-looking, ...

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.

I'm a Black American and my wife is Japanese - raising our kids in Japan is far better than the US. Darryl Wharton-Rigby lives in the Saitama suburbs with his wife and three kids ...