Three ongoing exhibitions showcasing work by Theaster Gates, Aliou Diack and Serge Mouangue highlight commonality between Japanese, African American and African aesthetics.

There’s a growing wave of multiracial support for Black American reparations – with many Jewish and Japanese organizations among them.

Miyamoto, whose father is African-American, had to spend her first television experience apologizing to reporters because she does not “look Japanese.” ...

Ubochi Igbokwe used funding provided by the new Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program to study Igbo African masquerade music and the cultural impacts of the ...

Grant said about his experience in Japan: “Living in Japan, as an African American, I've honestly never felt more free.” He talked about how he can catch a cab without even trying, and that he ...

It's been 80 years since FDR signed Executive Order 9066 that put 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II.

As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s.

The African American Youth Travel Program NPO, which organized a recent demonstration in Tokyo in response to the Ferguson case, brings black U.S. youths to Japan to broaden their horizons.

Gallicchio, Marc S. The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Horne, Gerald.

A Black American father has explained why he is glad he is raising his family in Japan rather than the US - and how different the reality of parenting there was from his expectations.