53: Why Japan needs Black Lives Matter w/ Ayana Wyse & Austin Freeman

<div>We hear from staff reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/ryutakahashi217">Ryusei Takahashi</a> about last weekend’s demonstrations in Tokyo, Black Lives Matter Kansai organizer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yana_yz/?hl=en">Ayana Wyse</a> about the Osaka marches and from Japan Times contributor Austin Freeman, who recounts his experiences of police harassment here in Tokyo. <br> <br> <strong>Read more: </strong> </div> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/248589456432884/">Black Lives Matter Tokyo</a> (Facebook)</li> <li> <a href="https://linktr.ee/BLMKansai">Black Lives Matter Osaka</a> (Linktree)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/07/national/protests-rallies-race-police-brutality-tokyo-japan/#.XuM5Dy90d24">Protesters hit Tokyo and Osaka streets with rallies against racism and police brutality</a> (Ryusei Takahashi &amp; Eric Johnston, The Japan Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2020/06/08/voices/why-marching-black-lives-japan-protests/#.XuM4kS90d25">Why we're marching for black lives in Japan</a> (Ayana Wyse, The Japan Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2020/01/20/voices/azabu-juban-tokyo-police-foreign-harassment/#.XuM4zC90d24">Once upon a time ... in Azabu Juban</a> (Austin Freeman, The Japan Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2020/06/10/our-lives/media-racism-black-lives-matter/#.XuM5Mi90d24">'No justice, no peace': The sentiment that resonates in America, Japan and all over the world </a>(Baye McNeil, The Japan Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/06/11/tennis/naomi-osaka-black-lives-matter/#.XuM46y90d24">Naomi Osaka in no mood to back down on support for Black Lives Matter </a>(Reuters, The Japan Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-japan/kurdish-case-becomes-rallying-cry-for-japan-protest-against-police-idUSKBN23D0JG">Kurdish case becomes rallying cry for Japan protest against police</a