In Japan, some of the Afriean Americans' novels and xvritin.cr. s had been translated int・o Japanese even bei'ore the end of the War in the Pacil'ic. Although we can see these historieal facts, they ceuld not beceme the cultural main st,ream. After the war, the clapanese peopLe were eager for culture to liberaLe themselves, and they wanted to create a eu!ture by themselves for peace, In this politico-eultura] elimat,e, The Japan Black Studies Association was feunded in 1954 and was influeneed

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... the awakening of Asia and Africa for independence. W'e can find the founding members' strong will to combine reseach with 'how to lead a human life' in the journal, Black Studies, The situation, in which the bla¢ k studies in the wor'ld is located, is not the same as it・ used to be in the 1950s, but this st,rong will has been inherited. Through blaek culture in our times, we can understand the importance ot' indigenous cukures, communities and families, religions, solidarity movements and st,ruggles I'or freedom. These concepts are inter-related, inter-woven with each other and based on people's real position in society. ItJs up to us whether we can eontextualize these eencept・s t,hrough our reseach, inheriting the founding members' will and Asianising black studies.