Years before I was born, my mother knew a man—a Black American man—who was serving in the US military. According to my mother’s story, this military serviceman was married to a Japanese woman. My mother met his wife; she was a Japanese-American woman named M(r)s. Toshiya. My mother never mentioned …
After being born and raised in the Black American community, years ago I had the opportunity to confirm my genetics through testing. I found out that I had Bukharan-Jewish and Japanese ancestry.
While I was observing and communicating with Japanese UNICEF Advocates on the street, some questions came to my mind:
As is customary in Japan and throughout the Japanese diaspora, many Nikkei Entrepreneurs pray for good fortune in business, success in life, and divine protection. From an Economic Anthropological perspective, praying allows entrepreneurs and business professionals to strengthen themselves from the worries surrounding economic instability, and even tune out the …
Is ignorance really bliss? What does it mean when people say, “I can’t wait for things to go back to normal”? What is defined as “normal”? Is “going back to normal” achievable after over 2.6 million deaths worldwide due to the Coronavirus—with over 530,000 Coronavirus-related deaths in the US alone? …
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