Aug 02 (globalvoices.org) - Popular YouTube channel and website The Black Experience Japan features interviews with dozens of black residents of Japan.
Launched in 2017 by Laranzo “Ranzo†Dacres, a Jamaican living in Japan, The Black Experience Japan interviews people from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a man who “found exactly what he needed in Japan†to Tsietsi Monare, a meteorologist and weather anchor for NHK, Japan's national broadcaster.
The website and YouTube channel got its start in 2017 following the launch of Ranzo's documentary “The Truth About Being Black in Japan“, in which he answers common questions he gets asked as he goes about daily life in Japan.
In this video, Fukuoka residents Ruth, from Kenya, and Grace, from Tanzania, talk about how they arrived in Japan, what it is like to work at a traditional Japanese-style pub or izakaya, mastering the Japanese language at a high level, and how Japan shows “there's life beyond a white-supremacy narrative.â€
