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The Japanese wikipedia article mentions there are records of him being born in Portuguese Mozambique. That would make him black-as-African.

Ehh I'm not sure the Japanese would have a way of knowing that. Given the time period this was in. Not sure if that source can be trusted.

One can trust suprisingly little in the history if you go down this route of not accepting non-verifiable information.

That's not how that works.