Lila Anton was born and raised in the countryside of Shizuoka, Japan. Her native language growing up was Japanese as she went to Japanese elementary and middle school, but her parents are both from the United States. She is biracial as her mom is black, and her dad is white (Jewish). Here is her story on growing up in Japan and navigating identity in a country where she does not look like everyone else. Lila is currently working at Netflix Japan in Global Creative Marketing, and helped promote shows like "The Naked Director".

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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:49 SelfIntroduction of Lila, Netflix Work
2:18 Lila's Upbringing in Shizuoka. Parents are black / white (Jewish)
5:05 Being the only "foreign" kid in rural Japan.
6:35 Lila's friends backing her up
7:45 Sports day in school
8:27 How the 1st day of school was as a biracial black/white girl in a Japanese school
11:02 Anime protagonist pic
11:30 Moving from Japan to USA at age 14 (can't speak English)
15:57 Sports (Volleyball) and making friends. Culture differences between American and Japanese teams
17:30 Studying AfricanAmerican history. Learning more about identity
18:00 How Lila was treated in Japan vs. America looking the way she did
20:46 Moving back to Japan after living in America for 10+ years. How it feels being from Japan, but not seen that way. Working at a Japanese company.
23:44 Cultural differences working with external clients at Netflix
26:21 Changing the way of thinking of people in Japan
31:08 Conclusion How should people growing up with a similar experience to Lila, act in society?
32:10 The need to be seen to help others, and not justifying Lila's Japaneseness
33:46 Max's thoughts
34:40 Lila's cheering
34:49 Lila's story on seeing a young half black half Japanese girl in Tokyo
37:04 Ending words


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