Info: Special journal on Japanese sexuality

Queer Japan Guest editor Mark McLelland Introduction to the Queer Japan Special Issue Mark McLelland Commentary Japan's Gay History Sunagawa Hideki, translated by Mark McLelland The Social Situation Facing Gays in Japan Sunagawa Hideki, translated by Mark McLelland AIDS and the Gay Community in Japan Hasegawa Hiroshi, translated by Mark McLelland Japanese Lesbian/Gay Studies Noguchi Katsuzō, translated by Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker Festival of Sexual Minorities in Japan: A Revival of the Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Parade in 2005 Katsuhiko Suganuma Determined to Live as a Man Masaki Masataka, translated by Katsuhiko Suganuma Articles The Legal Situation Facing Sexual Minorities in Japan Taniguchi Hiroyuki The Process of Divergence between 'Men who Love Men' and 'Feminised Men' in Postwar Japanese Media Ishida Hitoshi and Murakami Takanori, translated by Wim Lunsing Itō Bungaku and the Solidarity of the Rose Tribes [Barazoku]: Stirrings of Homo Solidarity in Early 1970s Japan Darren Aoki Yaoi Ronsō: Discussing Depictions of Male Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics, Gay Comics and Gay Pornography Wim Lunsing Penisism and the Eternal Hole: (Homo)Eroticism and Existential Exploration in the Early Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo Jeffrey Angles Discussion Papers A Short History of Hentai Mark McLelland Interactive Practices in Shinjuku Ni-Chōme's Homosexual Bars Ishida Hitoshi, translated by Richard Emmerson Interviews Clandestine Wandering in the World of Women: An Interview with Freelance Journalist 'Y' translated by James Welker Celebrating Lesbian Sexuality: Interview with Inoue Meimy Interviewers: Katsuko Suganuma and James Welker, translated by James Welker Interview with Takahashi Mutsuo Jeffrey Angles, translated by Katsuhiko Suganuma Poetry Confessions of Madame Ursula Bearine Hasegawa Hiroshi, translated by Edwin Whenmouth Poems Takahashi Mutsuo, translated by Jeffrey Angles Book Reviews Fushimi Noriaki, Matsuzawa Kureichi, Kurokawa Noboyuki, Yamanaka Toshio, Oikawa Kenji, Noguchi Katsuzō 'Okama' wa sabetsu ka: 'Shūkan Kinyōbi no Sabetsu Hyōgen Jiken [Does 'okama' have discriminatory connotations? The discriminating expression case in the weekly magazine Shūkan Kinyōbi] reviewed by Nanette Gotlieb Helen Creese Women of the Kakawin World Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali reviewed by Lyn Parker Contributors