Modern Japan Pre History

Homosexuality has been an integral part of Japanese culture, presumably from prehistoric times. Mentions of it are to be found in the earliest known texts, and it occupies a central position in the culture up to the Meiji restoration of the late 1800's, when the Japanese felt the need to emulate the Western intruders and classified homosexuality as deviant.

• - Analysis of modern Japanese queer identities and constructions.
  
• - History, literature, culture and self-help for gay youth.
  
• - Article on samurai homosexuality and other forms of Japanese gay culture and history.
  
• - Abstracts of papers on Japanese homosexuality presented at the 1996 conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  
• - Book review of this groundbreaking work on Japanese homosexuality by Gary Leupp, in the International Gay & Lesbian Review.
  
  

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