“Bridgette Wright, another of the organizers [group: Black Women in Japan], is from Jamaica and has been living in Japan since 2013. She came here primarily because she was into anime, and because she wanted to experience a culture very different from her own, she says. Japan met that need, and then some.When she first arrived here, she lived in Mie Prefecture, in an area where there were few foreign residents, fewer blacks, and black women were virtually nonexistent. But soon she started visiting Nagoya quite often, and found the BWIJ members living there to be a pretty vibrant group. So, a year later when she moved to Nagoya, she became a bit more involved in their activities, and that’s when she began to notice the benefits of membership.”
The Japan Times.
