Masako Miki
Masako Miki is the Japanese Liaison Officer at the Japanese American National Museum, where she is responsible for marketing, PR, fundraising, and improving visitor services for Japanese people and Japanese companies. She is also a freelance editor, writer, and translator. After graduating from Waseda University in 2004, she worked as an editor at Shichosha, a poetry publisher. She moved to the United States in 2009 and served as deputy editor of the Japanese information magazine The Lighthouse in Los Angeles before assuming her current position in February 2018.
(Updated September 2020)
Stories from This Author
Tracing the history of Japanese Americans through the relationship with African-American history: Part 1
Sept. 14, 2020 • Masako Miki
"Black Lives Matter." What do you think about this movement that is happening now? There are many different types of Japanese people living in America, including those with mixed black*, white, and Asian ancestry, as well as those who have married people of other races and ethnicities. Depending on their position and environment, I imagine that they may feel that "Black Lives Matter" is something that is relevant to them, or that it is something far removed from them. As …
