• LGBTQ+ Stories from Japan, Part 1

  • Oct 30 2024
  • Length: 55 mins
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LGBTQ+ Stories from Japan, Part 1

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  • RJL is excited to bring you this two-parter about LGBTQ+ stories from Japan. Part one covers some of the earliest writing in Japanese through the end of the Meiji Period in 1912.

    Part two (coming soon) covers Taisho Japan (when women finally enter the stage) through some of Japan's contemporary queer writers.

    This episode is rated mature.

    CW: homophobia, brief mentions of suicide (fictional and historical), historical accounts of practices today recognized as pedophilia and pederasty

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