Born With It (生まれつき）: Short film captures the angst of being a black child in Japan
An American filmmaker, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, from Texas, depicts this struggle to be accepted as a dark skinned black man in Japan in his award winning short film Born With It(生まれつき).…
This week in Hate Mongering In Japan: Fuji TV wins for Korean mistranslation ‘sans malice’
Another scene had a Korean man reportedly saying the equivalent of the US racist cliche, "Some of my best friends are black." In the scene shown, the man is subtitled…
Should Fuji-Sankei Group be red-faced over scheduled blackface music program in Japan?
This photo of two Japanese musical groups posing together in blackface, white gloves and costumes, gained attention when tweeted by several journalists and many others. Some consider it racist.
Japan’s Establishment Is A-Okay With Apartheid! 日本へようこそ！
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Japan’s Female Police Commissioner worked with racist & sexist newspaper?
It's not just Ms. Yamatani's ties to a hate group reviled by the UN, Zaitokukai, but in an essay she wrote for a magazine run by a member of the…