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Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity Poetry_Gift_Guide why do we want toThe surprising alliance between Japan and pro Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U. S. an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least because