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Queer Japan
is a 2019 documentary film directed, edited, and co-written by Graham Kolbeins. The documentary profiles a range of individuals in Japan who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). ''Queer Japan'' is produced by Hiromi Iida with Anne Ishii, written by Ishii and Kolbeins, and features an original score composed by Geotic (a stage name of Will Wiesenfeld, also known as Baths). Synopsis and cast ''Queer Japan'' is an ensemble film that profiles a range of artists, academics, community organizers, and activists who are members of the LGBTQ community in Japan. Kolbeins has described the film as "a series of character studies," rather than an issue-focused documentary. Over one hundred interviews were conducted for ''Queer Japan'' over the course of four years, with interviews conducted in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Gunma, and Okinawa. Subjects are listed alphabetically by last name: * Akira the Hustler, artist * Kaoru Aoyama, sociologist at Kobe Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Kolbeins
Graham Kolbeins is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and fashion designer. Background Kolbeins' documentary films have focused on themes of LGBTQ art and activism, including the web series ''Rad Queers'' and the documentary short film ''The House of Gay Art''. As co-founder and creative director of the brand Massive Goods Kolbeins and collaborator Anne Ishii worked with Japanese artists including gay manga artist Gengoroh Tagame and feminist artist Rokudenashiko to produce English translations of their work as well as fashion collections for brands including Opening Ceremony and Mishka. Works Films The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission named Kolbeins a recipient of their Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship in 2016, and he subsequently spent five months filming a feature documentary about sexuality and gender identity in Japan titled ''Queer Japan.'' Currently in post-production, the film features a variety of artists, activists, dancers, drag queens, and everyday persons. The cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okinawa
is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi). Naha is the capital and largest city of Okinawa Prefecture, with other major cities including Okinawa, Uruma, and Urasoe. Okinawa Prefecture encompasses two thirds of the Ryukyu Islands, including the Okinawa, Daitō and Sakishima groups, extending southwest from the Satsunan Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to Taiwan ( Hualien and Yilan Counties). Okinawa Prefecture's largest island, Okinawa Island, is the home to a majority of Okinawa's population. Okinawa Prefecture's indigenous ethnic group are the Ryukyuan people, who also live in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture. Okinawa Prefecture was ruled by the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1429 and unofficially annexed by Japan after the Invasion of Ryukyu in 1609. Okinawa Prefecture was officially founded in 1879 by the Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megumi Igarashi
, who uses the pseudonym , is a Japanese sculptor and manga artist who creates works that feature female genitalia and are often modeled after her own vulva. Rokudenashiko considers it her mission to reclaim female genitalia as part of women's bodies and demystify them in Japan's male dominated society, where she believes that they are "overly hidden" and marginalized as “taboo” and “obscene” in comparison to phallic imagery. As such, the artist has created a variety of different representations of ''manko'', the Japanese slang for vagina or pussy, using representations of her own body as the raw material to emphasize as return to experience within art and manga. Rokudenashiko has been called an international symbol of “manko positivity.” The pseudonym Rokudenashiko translates to “good-for-nothing-girl,” a name the artist made up by combining ''rokudenashi'' (which translates to “good-for-nothing,” “bastard,” “ne’er-do-well”) and the diminutive feminin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gengoroh Tagame
is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. Regarded as the most influential creator in the gay manga genre, he has produced over 20 books in four languages over the course of his nearly four decade-long career. Tagame began contributing manga and prose fiction to Japanese gay men's magazines in the 1980s, after making his debut as a manga artist in the ''yaoi'' (male-male romance) manga magazine ''June'' while in high school. As a student he studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and worked as a commercial graphic designer and art director to support his career as a manga artist. His manga series , originally serialized in the gay men's magazine '' Badi'' from 1992 to 1993, enjoyed breakout success after it was published as a book in 1994. After co-founding the gay men's magazine '' G-men'' in 1995, Tagame began working as a gay manga artist full-time. For much of his career Tagame exclusively created erotic and pornographic manga, works that are distinguished by thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumino Sugiyama
is a Japanese transgender activist and former fencer. He is a co-representative director of Tokyo Rainbow Pride, an annual festival that celebrates Tokyo's LGBT community and has served as a member of the Shibuya Ward Gender Equality and Diversity Society Promotion Council, a director of the Japan Fencing Association, and the Japanese Olympic Committee. He has also authored several books, including ''Double Happiness'' in 2006. Early life and career Sugiyama was born on August 10, 1981, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the second daughter of Motoshige Sugiyama, the manager of the tonkatsu restaurant Suzuya in Kabukichō. He attended schools attached to Japan Women's University, graduating from high school in 2000 and entering Waseda University's School of Education. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he entered the university's Graduate School of Education and graduated from there with a master's degree. Athletic career Previously practicing swimming and kendo, Sugiyama went into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto Sangyo University
is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. History The university was established in 1965. The founder was Toshima Araki (, 1897–1978), and Hideo Iwakuro (岩畔 豪雄 Iwakuro Hideo, 10 October 1897 – 22 November 1970), the Japanese spy master who established the Nakano School during World War II. The university was opened with two faculties: Economics and Science. Later it added faculties and the graduate schools (master's courses in 1969, doctoral courses in 1971). In 2020, at least 16 students enrolled at the university contracted COVID-19 An official from the Kyoto municipal government described the growing of COVID-19 contractions at the university as "a cluster." Organization Undergraduate schools * Faculty of Economics * Faculty of Business Administration * Faculty of Law * Faculty of Sociology * Faculty of International Relations * Faculty of Foreign Studies * Faculty of Cultural Studies * Faculty of Science * Faculty of information Science and Engineering * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiji University
, abbreviated as Meiji (明治) or Meidai (明大'')'', is a private research university located in Chiyoda City, the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1881 as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, ''Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō'') by three Meiji-era lawyers, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao, Meiji University is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning in Japan. The university has a total of approximately 33,000 students on all four campuses around the Greater Tokyo Area: Surugadai, Izumi, Ikuta, and Nakano. Meiji is organized into 10 undergraduate, 12 graduate, 4 professional graduate schools; and operates 15 world-class research centers and a museum. It began its first partner agreement in 1986 with York University in Canada, and currently partners with 363 universities and institutions in 56 countries. Some of the university's partners include: Stanford University, Columbia University, the University of Oxford, the University of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTuber
A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influential YouTubers are frequently described as microcelebrities. Since YouTube is widely conceived as a bottom-up social media video platform, microcelebrities do not appear to be involved with the established and commercial system of celebrity culture, but rather appear self-governed and independent. This appearance, in turn, leads to YouTubers being seen as more relatable and authentic, also fostered by the direct connection between artist and viewer using the medium of YouTube. In 2014, the University of Southern California surveyed 1318-year-olds in the United States on whether 10 YouTube celebrities or 10 traditional celebrities were more influential; YouTube personalities took the first five spots of the ranking, with the YouTube duo Smo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butoh
is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. The art form is known to "resist fixity" and is difficult to define; notably, founder Hijikata Tatsumi viewed the formalisation of butoh with "distress". Common features of the art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, and extreme or absurd environments. It is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion. However, with time butoh groups are increasingly being formed around the world, with their various aesthetic ideals and intentions. History Butoh first appeared in post-World War II Japan in 1959, under the collaboration of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, "in the protective shadow of the 1950s and 1960s avant-garde". A key impetus of the art form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Kee
Leslie Kee (born 5 April 1971) is a Singaporean photographer based in Japan. Early life Leslie Kee was born on 5 April 1971, in Singapore. His biological parents were never legally married; both parents are Singaporeans his father is a police man and Kee's mother worked at a bar. She got pregnant when she was 23 years old. She raised Kee and his younger sister on her own as a single mother. Kee and his mother lived in a one-room housing estate in Tiong Bahru. They were very poor and have no relatives around to help them up. He attended Bukit Ho Swee East School and Victoria School. In his early education, Kee was reserved and seldom spoke in school. When Kee was 13 years old, a few months before her death, Kee's mother gave him a Minolta camera — it later proved to be Kee's influence in becoming a photographer. Kee took a job at a Japanese electronics factory from 13 years old to 19 years old. After his mandatory conscription in the army for 2 years at 21 years old, Kee saved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Kamikawa
is a Tokyo municipal official. With her election in April 2003, she became the first openly transgender person to seek or win elected office in Japan. Life Aya Kamikawa was born on January 25, 1968, in Tokyo's Taitō Ward. She is the second child of three. She attended Hosei University Second Senior High School, an all-boys school. In 1990, Kamikawa graduated from Hosei University with a degree in Business Administration. She began to work in the field of public relations whilst presenting masculine. In 1995, she resigned from her post, citing stress associated with gender dysphoria, and began hormone replacement therapy. In 1998, she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder by a psychiatrist. In 1999, she started working at a private company whilst presenting feminine. She also changed her name to Aya that same year. In 2003, Kamikawa, then a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for "sex".. She won a four-year term as an independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G-men (magazine)
is a Japanese gay lifestyle brand, and formerly a monthly magazine. History Gay magazines in Japan, along with much gay culture, are segregated by 'type' (e.g., muscular men, older men, specific occupations); ''G-men'' was founded in 1995 to cater to gay men who preferred "macho fantasy", as opposed to the sleeker, yaoi-inspired styles popular in the 1980s, and focused on "macho type" (muscular, bearish men) and ''gaten-kei'' (ガテン系, blue-collar workers). ''G-men'' included both editorial and photographic material, as well as prose stories and manga. ''G-men'' was designed to encourage steady readership by presenting a more well-defined fantasy image, and by running serialized, continuing manga stories (as opposed to the one-shot stories standard in other in gay men's magazines) which encouraged purchase of every issue. Gengoroh Tagame's work was an important influence on ''G-men''s style; he provided the cover for the first 63 issues, as well as manga stories for most is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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