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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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, ...