Social Media Furious After CEO of Cosmetic Company DHC Uses Racial Slur Online “For some reason, the models hired for Suntory’s commercials are almost all Korean-Japanese. And that’s…
Racism in Japan: A Conversation With Anthropology Professor John G. Russell In the early ‘80s, Harlem-native John G. Russell was at a Tokyo psychiatric ward, visiting the…
Why I’m Glad I Got Stuck in Japan During Covid-19 My six-year-old daughter, Kantra, was weeks away from graduating preschool when the virus spread. Japan’s…
What’s Wrong with NHK’s Black Lives Matter Video and Why We Need to Talk About It Japanese television has an uncomfortable tendency to produce embarrassing (read, racist) videos and programs when discussing topics…
18,500 Foreigners to Be Surveyed About Racism in Japan As we approach 2020 and tourist numbers reach a whopping 20 million, the government is…
