Black People in Japan

[SaikyoJoe]

Besides the military bases / trainees, are there a lot of black people living in japan?

I saw a couple of likely sub-saharan africans on the subway the other day. They were fluent in Nihongo.

 

[Glenski]

Yes

 

[Transformer5]

You get Africans coming over to do factory work and that kind of thing. There are a lot of them in Roppongi and Kabukicho running bars, and employing African touts to hassle people on the streets to go drinking in them.

Demography of Japan - Wikipedia

Hard to believe that there were only 140 registered Nigerians in Japan in 1990. How times change.

 

[thomas]

This used to be a great resource on "black issues" in the late 90s/early 2000s: Craig Nine's Black Tokyo. It seems the website has meanwhile become property of Black Tokyo, Inc., but they still feature a series of interesting articles on Africans in Japan.