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Based on Japanese language materials and fieldwork, the authors examine how various noncomformist individuals have questioned received notions about sex and gender. From young women opposed to marriage, to heterosexual men who wish to be more involved i...

This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demo...

"Queer Voices from Japan" examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narrat...

Onderzoekt de beeldvorming rond homoseksualiteit in de Japanse populaire media en de invloed daarvan op identiteit van Japanse homoseksuelen.

After English, Japanese is the most widely represented language on the Internet; yet, because Japanese is not widely spoken outside Japan, very little information exists in English about the ways in which the Internet is being used by queer communities...

After English and Chinese, Japanese is the most widely represented language on the internet and yet few studies have been made of how communities in Japan engage with this new technology. This article looks at the internet both as a virtual space in whi...

This paper looks at the development of transgender identities in twentieth-century Japan, from their "professional" antecedents in the kabuki theater, through post-war paradigms based in the entertainment world, to recent notions of _amateur_ transgende...

This paper argues that Japanese women's media which portray images of foreign (nearly always white) men and Japanese gay men as objects of desire and fascination for Japanese women function as rhetorical mirrors whose real intent is to reflect back the...