He is the author of African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan.
[3][4] He first came to Japan in 2000 as a participant in the JET Programme, spending two years in Tottori[4] as an assistant language teacher at an elementary school.
[5] He later took on a full-time lecturing position at the Nihon University College of Law,[4] and was promoted to associate professor in 2019[6] In the same year, he also became a visiting researcher for SOAS.
[1][2] In 2016, he released a paper titled The Story of Yasuke: Nobunaga's African Retainer on the Nihon University's journal Ōmon Ronsō (桜文論叢),[4][7] and in 2017 he published his first work titled Nobunaga to Yasuke: Honnoji o ikinobita kokujinsamurai (信長と弥助 本能寺を生き延びた黒人侍).
[2] In 2019, he published African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan in the United States together with Geoffrey Girard.