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Homosexuality in Japan - the gay & queer woman experience

An overview of what it means to be gay in Japan. Vagueness, blurring of lines, ambiguity, possibility: these are some of the clichés that tend to spring to the Western mind when addressing the topic of sexuality in Japan. How much of it is wishful and how much of it is cultivated by Japanese themselves is debatable. It is a fact that samurai were pederasts, that kabuki is a theater of cross dressing, that to Westerners many Japanese boys and men - physically and/or behaviorally - seem to exhibit typically 'feminine' traits: all leading to the common impression of outsiders that Japan must be a basically gay approachable society. Read more about Homosexuality in Japan - the gay & queer woman experience

How to hit Ni-Chome

A guide to partying in Tokyo's gay Shinjuku area. You've just come to Tokyo, you're passing through Tokyo, you've just enter out in Tokyo, you're - er - 'curious' in Tokyo. Whatever it is, there's Shinjuku Ni-Chome (knee-choh-may), not even 10 minutes walk from the east side of Shinjuku station, unremarkable from the outside as any Japanese street block - or, for