Coming Out In Japan

Author : Satoru Itō,Ryūta Yanase
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1876843020

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Coming Out in Japan by Satoru Itō,Ryūta Yanase Pdf

Traditionally the Japanese have shunned those not fitting the majority heterosexual mould. Those with a homosexual orientation have always endured an uncomfortable existence in a culture which condones blatant public scorn and ridicule being directed towards them and which doesn't question the pernicious stereotyping of gays. In Japan these traditions have survived into the twenty-first century and remain a deeply rooted part of the national psyche. It was in such a hostile environment that two men, in defiance of the prevailing social norms, saw fit to take a stand and declare that they were different from the mainstream, different from all the imagery they had ever been exposed to, and not orientated to fit the rigid, positively sanctioned mould presented to them by society. This book gives a human focus to the nascent struggle for social acceptance and dignity being waged by homosexuals in Japan. It describes the authors' coming out to society and their subsequent appeals, on both a personal and public level, for the acceptance of homosexuality by the wider society. It is a highly personal account of the authors' experiences - their fears, despair, self-loathing and rejection, aspirations, traumas and triumphs.

Author : Barbara Summerhawk,Cheiron McMahill,Darren McDonald
Publisher : New Victoria Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1892281007

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Queer Japan by Barbara Summerhawk,Cheiron McMahill,Darren McDonald Pdf

In this important contribution to international queer studies, sixteen people, spanning generations from pre-war to newly out young activists, tell their stories.

Author : Saikaku Ihara
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804718954

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The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara Pdf

Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. ---------- "A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."--Journal of Japanese Studies

Author : Mark McLelland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461641605

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Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age by Mark McLelland Pdf

Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the U.S. occupation and the international community, contests major interpretations of contemporary queer society, and introduces readers to the development of lesbian, transgender, and gay communities in postwar Japan.Queer Japan from the Pacific Age to the Internet Age provides a historical outline of the development of sexual-minority identity categories and community formation through a detailed analysis of both niche and mainstream publications, including magazines, newspapers, biographies, memoirs, and Internet sites. The material is also augmented with interview data from individuals who have had a long association with Japan's queer cultures.Including a wealth of images from the "perverse press," this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in modern and contemporary Japan and in gender studies and sexuality.

Author : George Friedman,Meredith LeBard
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312076770

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The Coming War with Japan by George Friedman,Meredith LeBard Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : East Asia
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008636730

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U.S. Policy in the Far East: U.S. policy and Japan. The Korean War and peace negotiations. South Asian and related problems by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Gary Leupp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520919198

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Male Colors by Gary Leupp Pdf

Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P. Leupp fills the gap with a dynamic examination of the origins and nature of the tradition. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. Combing through popular fiction, law codes, religious works, medical treatises, biographical material, and artistic treatments, Leupp traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai, then describes the emergence of homosexual practices among commoners in Tokugawa cities. He argues that it was "nurture" rather than "nature" that accounted for such conspicuous male/male sexuality and that bisexuality was more prevalent than homosexuality. Detailed, thorough, and very readable, this study is the first in English or Japanese to address so comprehensively one of the most complex and intriguing aspects of Japanese history.

Author : Iori Hamada
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000921960

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The Japanese Restaurant by Iori Hamada Pdf

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers. Through first-hand testimonies, collected from chefs, restaurateurs, gourmets and casual diners, it demonstrates how Japanese restaurants act as cultural hubs, connecting a diverse community of migrants, Australian citizens and international tourists, while also disseminating knowledge of Japanese culinary cultures. The ethnographic evidence presented challenges the colonialist and essentialist understandings of the ‘exotic’ and ‘Japaneseness’ as the ‘inferior other’ to the West. In so doing, the book highlights the complex manifestations of cross-cultural desires, translating practices and the performative racial-ethnic mimesis of Japanese ethnicity. Featuring critical investigation into the fixed notions of otherness, race, ethnicity and authenticity, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture, particularly Japanese food culture.

Author : John Hersey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593082362

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Hiroshima by John Hersey Pdf

Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Author : Mark McLelland,Romit Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134260584

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Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan by Mark McLelland,Romit Dasgupta Pdf

Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities. Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have questioned received notions and challenged social norms relating to sex and gender. The chapters depict the plurality of gender positions; from housewives opposed to gender roles within marriage to heterosexual men wishing to be more involved in family life. Including material not previously published in English, this volume gives an overview of the important changes taking place in gender and sexuality studies within Japanese scholarship.

Author : Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620972908

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Edges of the Rainbow by Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki Pdf

An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be “the nail that sticks out,” makes coming out difficult. Despite the conservative strain within Japanese society that encourages the LGBTQ community to remain unseen, a welcome change is happening on the ground. A number of queer cultural figures are opening up new horizons, and a growing majority of Japanese people believe that homosexuality should be an integral and open part of society. The latest in a series of beautiful, affordable photobooks that look at LGBTQ communities around the world, Edges of the Rainbow is a photographic celebration of the queer community in Japan. In a set of more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs, acclaimed photographer Michel Delsol and journalist Haruku Shinozaki have brought together a fascinating group of individuals to create an unforgettable and uplifting look at a proud and resilient community on the margins of Japanese society. Edges of the Rainbow was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

Author : Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317961895

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Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan by Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour Pdf

This book explores the transition from the era of internationalization into the era of globalization of Japan by focusing on language and identity as its central themes. By taking an interdisciplinary approach covering education, cultural studies, linguistics and policy-making, the chapters in this book raise certain questions of what constitutes contemporary Japanese culture, Japanese identity and multilingualism and what they mean to local people, including those who do not reside in Japan but are engaged with Japan in some way within the global community. Topics include the role of technology in the spread of Japanese language and culture, hybrid language use in an urban context, the Japanese language as a lingua franca in China, and the identity construction of heritage Japanese language speakers in Australia. The authors do not limit themselves to examining only the Japanese language or the Japanese national/cultural identity, but also explore multilingual practices and multiple/fluid identities in "a transitional Japan." Overall, the book responds to the basic need for better accounts of language and identity of Japan, particularly in the context of increased migration and mobility.

Author : Patrick W. Galbraith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781478007012

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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith Pdf

From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.

Author : Deborah Carlin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015057581608

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Queer Cultures by Deborah Carlin Pdf

A core text for undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Gay and Lesbian Studies and Women's Studies or as a Special Topics Reader. This anthology presents the most important and influential essays in GLBT and Queer Studies during the past twenty years. Presented with historical, political context, the essays, poems, fiction, personal narratives and performance pieces present various, sometimes opposing, points-of-view across the disciplines of philosophy, literature, history, art, film, television, web and print media, political science, anthropology, economics, sociology and psychology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Kumano Region (Japan)
ISBN : 0998221406

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Koya Bound by Anonim Pdf