





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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