About Us

Eric L. Robinson

Creative Director

Eric L. Robinson, M.A. in Security Studies (Far East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific), Naval Postgraduate School, loves providing more of the story on Japan from an Afro-perspective.

Brad Bell

Production Coordinator

Brad Bell (@ogPegasus303) – Los Angeles, California.

Mitzi Uehara Carter

Contributing Writer

Dr. Mitzi Uehara Carter, PhD in Anthropology,UC Berkeley, CA is the author of Grits and Sushi, a blog where she shares her musings on family, Okinawa, race,  militarization, transnationalism, and blackness.

Jason Gatewood

Contributing Writer

Jason Gatewood (@starrwulfe) – Yokohama, Japan: Tech nerd, h@x0r, Japanophile, 一般な933K, @RikkyoUniv sensei. I’m on a never-ending quest to better myself through living my dreams without regret or shame.

L. Taz Hicks

Contributing Writer

L. Taz Hicks (@Onmugen) – Yokohama, Japan: Music producer and Lyric writer living in Japan and loving it!

Fu Miyatani French

Contributing Writer

Fu Miyatani French, first “Nubian Heritage” Tai Chi Mantis Sifu, 36th generation Northern Shaolin Temple Sifu of Grandmaster Wong Jac Man lineage and 9th generation Tai Chi Mantis, Grandmaster Chi Chuk Kai lineage instructor.

BLACK TOKYO INTERVIEWS AND MENTIONS

Black Tokyo Website

Black Tokyo (BT) was created in 1999 to provide a voice and a network for Blacks living in Japan.

Interviews

• Eye-Ai（あいあい） 2016年9月号, Interview Eye
• Eye-Ai（あいあい） 2016年7月号, Interview Eye
• Eye-Ai（あいあい） 2016年5月号, Interview Eye
• Black Tokyo. Ricardo Bilton, Japan Times, March 25, 2009
• Eric Robinson – Japan & Black Tokyo. BlackExpat.com
• Eric Robinson – Afro Eric’s Funniest Fan Blog

Print and Television

• Filling the void: Disseminating ‘blackness’ in Japan, Japan TImes, 2017
• Lawmaker draws rebuke, silence after describing Obama as ‘slave descendant.’ Tomohiro Osaki, Japan Times, 2016.
• A Half-Black Japanese Beauty Queen Is Raising Eyebrows-But Will She Change Minds? Taylor Wofford, Newsweek, 2015.
• Let the SDF Deploy Overseas, Eric L. Robinson, Japan Times
• Monkey advert ‘resembling’ Obama is pulled in Japan, The Guardian (United Kingdom)
• Mobile Phone Monkey Business: A Japanese Primate Plays Obama. Earnest Harris, The Huffington Post, 2008
• Is it racist? France 24 News
• Clam Magazine
• IMBd – Afro Eric

Academic Publications

• Lost in Translation: U.S. Forces and Crime in Japan. Naval PostgraduateSchool, Eric L. Robinson, 2015.
• Deployment, Bases, and the US Military in Movement: Imagining Japan and the Self Through Race & Sex. University of California, Berkeley; Center for Race and Gender
• The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity, ”Sierra Reicheneker, Pepperdine University, 2011.

Miscellaneous Online Resources

• BBC 1xtra in Japan
• Shinpai Deshou! Resource: Black Tokyo
• Gizmodo
• AskMen.com
• Reuters
• Washington Post
• CNN Political Blog
• CNN News
• ABC News
• The Daily Kos
• Boing Boing
• Yahoo! News
• Sankei Shimbun
• Nippon Press Network
• 2 Channel

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