In tune with the current geopolitical panorama and the undeniable importance that nations like China have acquired in recent decades, or the conflicts that have taken place in the Middle East and North Africa, History as a discipline has focused its studies on examining the political, economic, cultural and social processes that transformed Asia and Africa, as well as exploring the cultural richness that various civilizations left in their wake -throughout millennia inhabiting these lands-. Considering the above, the fourth number of Bloch. Student Magazine of History, presents its readers with a series of articles that delve into topics such as: post-war Japanese literature, the evolution of martial arts, the practice of seppuku, the folklore of the Edo period, the presence of Japanese immigrants in Mexico, the situation of black women in apartheid South Africa, among others. With this issue, the journal aims to contribute to the promotion of Asian and African studies; disseminate the texts of young researchers and review the history of these continents from a decolonizing perspective, in order to reduce the Eurocentric tendency that has permeated the university spaces of Mexico.