"The people who populate the island of Japan today are descendants from Blacks....Let us not forget that the first population of Japan was Black...and gave to Japan their first language."
--Leopold Sedar Senghor
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Chamberlain, Alexander Francis. "The Contribution of the Negro to Human Civilization." Journal of Race Development 2 (Apr 1911): 458-71.
Fleming, Beatrice J., and Marion J. Pryde. "The Negro General of Japan--Sakanouye Tamuramaro." Chap. in Distinguished Negroes Abroad. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1946: 3-9.
Hulse, Frederick S. "Physical Types Among the Japanese."In Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia. Edited by Carleton S. Coon and James M. Andrews IV. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1942: 122-33.
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Jones, Lois Mailou. "Sakanouye Tamura Maro." Negro History Bulletin 4, No. 2 (Nov 1940): 31.
Person-Lynn, Kwaku. "First Japanese Were Black." Los Angeles Sentinel, 14 Mar 1991: A-8.
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"Senghor Presents `Actual Facts' on Japanese: They're Descendants from Blacks." The Final Call 6, No. 5 (1987).
Suzuki, Hiroe. "September Meeting Report." JAFA News: Japan Afro-American Friendship Association Dedicated to Friendship and Mutual Understanding Between Japanese People and the Black Community in Japan (Dec 1993): 5-6.
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