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Black people in Japan (黒人系日本人, Kokujinkei nihonjin /Nipponjin) are Japanese residents or citizens of sub-Saharan African ancestry.
24 gru 2020 · The same month, thousands of people marched in support of Black Lives Matter in Japan. Amid this growing debate on racism in Japan, we spoke with four biracial Japanese people about their...
27 sie 2020 · To many Japanese, discrimination against black people has been a foreign problem, but things are changing.
Although the Japanese consider themselves to be a homogeneous people, minorities do exist, and they often suffer discrimination. The largest indigenous minority are the two to four million hisabetsu buraku ("discriminated communities"), descendants of the outcast communities of feudal Japan.
Are the people’s political choices free from domination by the military, foreign powers, religious hierarchies, economic oligarchies, or any other powerful group that is not democratically accountable?
Most but not all are South Korean nationals, and they have the option of applying for Japanese citizenship. The Ainu, an Indigenous people numbering at least 20,000, live mostly on the northern island of Hokkaido. The Ainu Party was launched in 2012 but has not subsequently won parliamentary seats.
This chapter considers claims relating to fundamental freedom of choice, focusing on three three practices that are incompatible with the basic policies of freedom of choice and equality of opportunity essential to human dignity: slavery, caste system, and apartheid.
