A Japanese researcher whose worldview was shaped by a transcontinental journey in his youth has spent years chronicling the lives of Native Americans and other minorities in the United States."While moving across the continents to the west, just like a runaway boy, the faces of people I met changed," said Jun Kamata, 44, now an associate professor at Asia University in Tokyo, of his two-month-long trip from China to Portugal in 1990.
Attracted by the diversity he saw, Kamata left for the United States after graduating from high school. It was there that he happened to become acquainted with …READ FULL ARTICLE
