Yazawa Tatsuhiro

Yazawa Tatsuhiro is a professor at the Department of Luso-Brazilian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University. He received a Bachelor's degree in Law (major in Politics) from Keio University in 1991, and a Master's degree (1993) and a Ph.D (2018) in Law from the same university. He specializes in African Studies with a focus on politics and history in lusophone african countries, and also in Black Diaspora Studies, particularly black history and race relations in Brazil.

His current research topics include ethnic relations in modern history and contemporary politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, especially of lusophone african countries, and Brazilian Black movement's view to Africa and its changes across the time.

Tatsuhiro Yazawa,"A imprensa negra brasileira na primeira metade do sculo XX e sua referncia frica e dispora africana: avaliando "pan-africanidade" na perspectiva da liderana negra brasileira",Anais: colquio de estudos luso-brasileiros(Associao Japonesa de Estudos Luso-Brasileiros)XXXI(1998)(outubro de 1999), pp. 45-69.

Tatsuhiro Yazawa, The Brazilian Black Movement and Africa: Views of a Black Diaspora on Their Homeland(in Japanese), Keio University Press, 2019.

Gen Kikkawa and Tatsuhiro Yazawa (eds.),Africa in the World: A Half Century of Nation-building and International Engagement(in Japanese), Sophia University Press, 2013.

Tatsuhiro Yazawa, “Raa e nao no discurso do movimento negro brasileiro na primeirametade do sculo XX: uma anlise na imprensa negra paulista”(in Japanese), Anais de Estudos Latino-Amecianos, n37(jul. De 2017): pp.53-81.