作为黑人在日本生活是怎么样的感觉？
What is it like being black in Japan?
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网友：我还记得有一天晚上我走进东京当地的一家餐馆，每个人都默默地盯着我看。“大家都在看什么?”一个日本厨师笑了起来，瞬间给尴尬的空气中注入了一股生气......
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作为黑人在日本生活是怎么样的感觉？
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I can still remember the night I walked into a local Tokyo restaurant in Japan and everyone stared at me in silence.
“What’s everyone looking at?” One of the Japanese cooks began laughing to add life to the awkward moment.
Being black in Japan is a unique experience, but not exactly how I expected it to be. Most Japanese residents were friendly and very business minded.
我还记得有一天晚上我走进东京当地的一家餐馆，每个人都默默地盯着我看。
“大家都在看什么?”一个日本厨师笑了起来，瞬间给尴尬的空气中注入了一股生气。
在日本作为一个黑人生活是一个很独特的经历，但与我预期的并不完全一样。大多数日本居民都很友好，而且很有商业头脑。
Tokyo is the biggest city in the world and you will get lots of looks and stares while you travel through as a black person. Many people are curious about you and will ask you questions about why you decided to come to Japan.
比起我的肤色，他们更关心我的钞票。我在东京生活的很轻松，几乎没有经历过种族歧视
东京是世界上最大的城市，当你作为一个黑人在东京旅行时，会有很多人盯着你看。很多人对你感到好奇，会问你为什么决定来日本。
I spent the majority of my time in Roppongi, the neighborhood for expats. You will find lots of black expats living there as well. Spending time in Roppongi made me feel at ease since they are many western expats living there.
日本女人非常的害羞，所以如果你是黑人的话，你应该改变一下自己的方法。通过社会关系和朋友介绍更容易结识到日本女性。因为日本人对陌生人通常会很冷漠。
我大部分时间都在六本木度过，那里是外国人聚居的地方。在那里你可以发现有很多的外籍黑人生活。在六本木的时光让我感到很放松，因为那里有很多西方人生活。
You’ll be fine if you are planning a short trip since Japan is very safe and friendly towards foreigners. Respect the culture, stay away from excessive drinking, and you should have a great time.
最大的障碍还是在语言，因为很少有日本人会说英语。如果你想要让自己的旅途变得更加愉快，那么在开始旅游之前就要学习一下日语了。
如果你计划短途旅行，那么没有关系，日本非常的安全，对外国人也很友好。尊重当地的日本文化，不要过度饮酒，这样你就会有一段美好的日本旅游时光了。
When I was in Tokyo, specifically Roppongi, there were many, many Nigerians. Japan is a one of the most homogeneous countries in the world…I for sure felt like an outsider as a white person.
当我在东京生活的时候，尤其是在六本木，那里有很多的尼日利亚人，日本是世界上同质化最严重的国家之一，我肯定，作为白人，自己在日本生活肯定会像是一个外人一样。
Leart Japanese before you go there is stated in the article, as it were a matter of a couple of hours or days. I am a linguist from Hungary speaking a fluent English and Russian and at a lower level three other Indoeuropan languages. I learned Japanese as well, after one year I knew about a thosand kanji, hiragana and katakana, Yet I was unable to read any text in that language. Speaking was also limited to a few simple utterances.
文章中说再去日本之前要先学习日语，因为这是接下来几小时或几天旅程的关键。我是来自匈牙利的多语言学家，会说一口流利的俄语和英语，还会说三种印欧语系的语言。我也学过日语，在学了一年后，我认识了上千个汉字、平假名和片假名，但我却还是看不懂任何日文。讲话也仅限于几句简单的话语。
Japan is insular, and homogeneous. They have not seen the likes of you.
Such is/was the case in my country of Sweden. The first time we (at school) saw a Korean girl….!
Boys wanted her. Girls wanted to be her. (I guess some girls also wanted her!)
日本是一个岛国，也是一个同质化的国家。他们没见过你这样的人。
我的祖国瑞典也是这样我们第一次在学校见到一个韩国女孩
男孩们都想要她，女孩们都想成为像她这样的人。（我猜有些女孩也想要她）
Japanese generally appear to be friendly because that is what is expected of them. The reality may be very different.
日本人通常表现得很友好，因为这是人们对他们的期望。但现实或许和你想的大相径庭。
Ironically, in some ways living in Japan while black is even safer than here in the United States. I lived in Aomori Prefecture for three year and absolutely enjoyed the Japanese people and culture. In all, I live in Asia for 8-years in three countries.
I simply learned the language as well as I could and adhered to their customs. As a result, my wife, two small children and I roamed the country and never felt threatened. Conversely……
讽刺的是，在某种程度上，黑人在日本生活甚至要比在美国生活更加的安全。我在日本青森县生活了三年，非常喜欢日本人和日本文化。我在亚洲的三个国家一共生活了八年。
我只是尽可能的学好日语，并遵守当地的风俗习惯。因此，当我和我妻子以及我的两个孩子在日本各地游荡时，没有受到过任何威胁。相反，，，
自从我在美国出生有意识以来，每周七天，每天24小时，我无时无刻都能感受到周围大部分人对我的厌恶和仇恨。对于大多数美国白人来说，要想理解黑人每时每刻都生活在危险的环境下是很难的，几乎是不可能的事情。
I’m an African-American woman who has been to Japan annually since 2012 for work and travel. I absolutely love Japan and have made many friends there. I’ve always been treated with respect and never felt threatened or afraid to travel by myself to many cities in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Yokohama and many more small towns and surrounding regions). It does help if you learn to speak some Japanese and have an understanding of the customs. Yes, I will admit that I experience more discrimination in the United States.
我是一名非洲裔美国女性，自2012年以来我每年都会因为工作旅游前往日本。我非常喜欢日本，在那里交到了很多的朋友。在日本的许多城市(东京、大阪、京都、奈良、神户、横滨以及更多的小城镇和周边地区)，独自旅游的时候我总是受到别人的尊重，从来没有受到威胁或恐惧。如果你会说一些日语，懂得一些风土人情，那么这会有所帮助。是的，我承认在美国我经历过更多的种族歧视。
Its a national embarrassment of Black Africans, thats blacks have to seek home in other non black cultures in order to feel safe. As long as the number of blacks are low, blacks in Asian countries will be tolerated.
这是非洲黑人国家的耻辱，黑人为了获得安全不得不在其他非黑人国家安家，只要亚洲国家的黑人数量不多，那么黑人就能得到当地人的容忍。
Well, I live in Okinawa, so its quite different from mainland Japan. Its a hybrid of sorts between America and Japan, but still, remains untainted by most of America's racism.
我住在冲绳，这里和日本本土还是有很大的不同的。这里是美国和日本的混合体，但没有受到大部分美国种族主义的污染。
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我从来没有遇到过种族主义的问题。很多冲绳人喜欢摸我儿子的头发，我儿子有一半的日本血统，但他的头发和我的一样卷。一些人或许会认为这是一种种族歧视，但除了头发以外，他看起来就像日本人一样。
这里既舒适又安全。我不用担心因为受过教育就被黑人种族歧视。这里没有人会因为我获得大学文凭就指责我表现得像白人一样。日本人很不错，我们相处得很好，因为我正在努力学习日语。岛上得白人，我必须要小心一些，但不需要想在老家那么小心。不管怎么样，除了假期以外我可能永远不会回家了，目前，这里得生活真的很舒服很好。我很喜欢这样得生活。
As long as they learn and abide by the societal rules and can speak some Japanese, black people should be fine in Tokyo. I've lived in Tokyo twice (soon to be three times), and they were some of the best experiences of my life. Black people aren't specifically looked down upon in the same way as they are in the west (and, from what I've heard, several other Asian countries). People will stare sometimes, but people stare at foreigners in general in Japan, and this is much less common in Tokyo than in other regions.
只要他们能学习日本得社会规则会说一些日语，那么黑人在东京生活应该不成问题。我曾在东京生活过两次（马上就要第三次了），那里有我人生中最好得一些经历。黑人在日本并不会像在西方那样遭受歧视。人们会盯着你看，在日本总会盯着外国人看，但在东京这种情况要少很多。
I'm not sure if you mean African-American black, but one of my African-American friends who live in Japan said "it's better to be discriminated in Japan than be discriminated in my own country".
我不确定你指的是不是非裔美国人，但我的一个在日本生活的非裔美国朋友和我说，“在日本受到歧视总比在自己国家受歧视好“
I don’t want to admit it, but the truth is that Japan doesn’t likely to accept anyone, except their own kind.
I remember when I was sitting on the train, this black foreigner is sitting in front of me. Beside him, there’s plenty of empty seats but no one attempt to sit beside him. Instead of sitting, everyone chooses to stand, even the old people persist standing. It’s quite sad that a big city like Tokyo has this kind of phenomenon.
虽然不像承认，但事实上日本人除了自己人以外，不可能接受其他国家的人。
我记得有一次在坐火车的时候，有一个黑人坐在我前面，在他旁边还有很多的空位子，但就是没有坐过去。每个人都选择站着，即便是老人也是如此。令人伤心的是，像东京这样的大城市竟然也会有这样的现象。
You don't need to worry about your skin colour. We don't care if you are black or white. We don't speak to your skin. We'll speak to YOU. Do you know what I mean? We are human so we don't separate treatment between white and black.
你不需要担心自己的肤色。我们不在乎你是黑人还是白人。我们又不和你的皮肤交流，我们要交流的是你这个人。你知道我是什么意思吗？我们是人，所以我们不会区别对待白人和黑人。
Unfortunately people of African ancestry and others who have a bit of dark skin complexion(like myself) are victims of certain racial discrimination wherever you go and Japan is not an exception for this.Fortunately, as time goes by,there is more migration which results in multiculturalism and tolerance which is quite apparent in Europe and even in Japan . As of now,I think a black person can easily get by in Japan. I've seen lot of black guys owning night clubs,dating Japanese girls,even anime became tolerant as I've seen many great Anime characters who appear African. Infact,I personally have a couple of friends over there whose dad/mom is of african descent.The older generation may or may not like foreigners but the younger generation is quite liberal. So I don't think it's a problem there..Good luck..And if u are staying there on a long term basis, follow the golden rule--learn the Japanese language, it's not easy but not that hard either.
不幸的是，非洲血统的人和其他肤色较黑的人无论到哪里都是种族歧视的受害者，在日本也不例外。幸运的是，随着时间的推移，移民的增多导致出现了多元文化和社会宽容，这种情况在欧洲，甚至在日本都很明显。至于现在我认为黑人在日本很容易就能活下去。我看到很多黑人开夜总会，和日本女孩约会，甚至动漫也变得宽容了许多，因为我看到很多伟大的动漫角色中出现了黑人。事实上我有几个日本朋友，他们的父亲或母亲身上有非洲血统。有些老年人喜欢外国人，有些就不太喜欢，但年轻人相当的自由。所以我认为作为黑人在日本生活没有什么问题，祝你好运，如果你想在日本长期生活下去，那么你最好要学会日语，这并不容易，但也没有那么难。
From what I've heard, if one is an African person living in Japan they have to be prepared for the fact that everyone will assume that you are African American. Since you are African American, this is not an issue.
Beyond that I don't think you'll have a hard time living in Tokyo. Especially if you speak Japanese, or at least try to speak Japanese. You'll probably fare better than persons from other Asian countries since African American culture is something of interest there.
"Japan really loves black people."
据我所知，如果一个黑人在日本生活，那么你就要 做好一个准备，那就是所有人都会认为你是非洲裔美国人，如果你是非洲裔美国人的那就没有问题。
除此之外，我认为你在东京生活不会有什么困难。特别是如果你说日语，或者至少试着去说日语的话，那就更加没有问题了。你可能会比亚洲其他国家的人在日本生活的更好，因为非洲裔美国人的文化在日本很受欢迎。
日本真的很喜欢黑人
My older sister, who is black, is currently in a tiny little town in Japan. She is the only black person in the town, so she gets a lot of attention from the press. She won a ginger-stacking competition and was featured in the newspaper because of it, and has been on TV about three times. Previously, she stayed with a host family in much bigger region. Her host family was very kind and she was never openly discriminated against.
我的姐姐是一个黑人，目前生活在日本的一个小镇。她是镇上的唯一一个黑人，所以得到了当地新闻的很多关注。有一次，她赢了堆生姜比赛，并因此登上了报纸的专题报道，并上了三次电视。之前，她在一个更大的地区住在寄宿家庭中。那家人对她非常友好，她从来没有被公开歧视过。
I have had a small number of black college students from the US, the Dominican Republic, Switzerland (yes, Switzerland), and other countries in my English language courses in Japan. They have been very positive about their experience in Japan.
In my own neighborhood I sometimes see small groups of school age kids that include at least one who appears of have an African or Afro-American parent. I hear these kids speaking Japanese; they appear to be fully accepted as just another Japanese kid.Tokyo is not, of course, all of Japan and I have read that in cities near some US military bases there can be problems.
在我日本的英语课上，有几个来自美国，多米尼加，瑞士和其他国家的黑人大学生。他们对自己在日本的经历感到乐观。
在我自己生活社区里，有时我会看到一小群学龄儿童，其中至少有一个孩子的父母似乎是非洲人或非裔美国人。我听到这些孩子会说日语，他们似乎完全被接受为日本孩子一样。当然东京不能代表全日本，我听说靠近美军军事基地的城市会有一些问题。