Category: Articles
LFJ Business Member Spotlight: McIsiah Kendema
Meet Business Member McIsiah Kendema. He is the founder of Borderless Translations, a translation and localization company specializing in creative writing and digital content. They translate into English, Japanese, and Spanish.
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Thanking our Founders; Looking Behind and Ahead
September marks the month we celebrate all the people who believed in the birth of Legacy Foundation Japan. It started with a conversation between five people who quickly realized we [...]
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LFJ Business Member Spotlight: Stephen Cockburn
Legacy Foundation Japan supports its business members’ endeavors no matter what stage they are in. Our members work in multiple industries both in Japan and abroad. Meet Business Member Stephen [...]
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Ruthie’s Road to the 2020/2021 Summer Olympics: All Aboard!!
Ruthie Rogers has been a Legacy Foundation Japan member since March 2021. She shares with us a first-person account of what it was like becoming an Olympic volunteer. This is [...]
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Black Dads Speak on Fatherhood in Japan
“Expect to learn more from them then they will learn from you.”
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Staying Body Positive While Living Abroad
One of the comments I always get from little kids in Japan is dekai meaning huge or gargantuan here in Japanese. Now I’m only 165cm tall and about 75kg on [...]
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Navigating Through Japan’s Black Hair Desert
Truth be told, hair care has never been my forte. Don’t get me wrong, wash and go’s, twists, topknot buns, etc. are great. But ask me what’s my “real” hair [...]
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How Kung Fu Cinema Inspired a Generation of Fighters AKA Why so many Black People Love Kung Fu
Last summer I had my first dream in Japanese. I wasn’t doing anything special but I remember it so vividly because it was a dream about my old karate dojo [...]
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Nature’s Therapy + the Black Body
On days like these when I feel like a stranger – less than myself – and like there’s a growing dissonance from within. I know then that it’s time to recharge. It’s time to go back into the wild and get reintroduced with the natural world.
For me, hiking or going to large forested parks is where I find solace.
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A Threat to Justice Everywhere
Baye McNeil Journalist | Author | Lecturer For the past year, Asian-Americans have been living in a state of terror, the victims of hate crimes all over the US. Many [...]
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An Enlightened American
The more I learned about Hawaiian history and culture through literature, museums, traditional music and dance as well as speaking with locals, the more connected I felt to the land of aloha. At the time, I felt less connected to the Dominican Republic, the birthplace of my parents, where I first visited the prior year.
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Coping with Homesickness
It was 2pm. Not the Kpop boy band but my delivery arriving right on time. Hurriedly grabbing my mask, to greet the bearer of my much-awaited package, and exchange ‘Arigato [...]
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