Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Notes on translation and transliteration VII
4. Table of Contents IX
5. List of Abbreviations XI
6. Introduction: A new age of visibility? LGBTQ+ issues in contemporary Japan 1
7. The progress of LGBT rights in Japan in the 2010s 21
8. Same-sex partnerships in Japan: Would legalization mean deradicalization? 39
9. LGBTQ human rights in Japanese laws and policies 57
10. Being LGBT in disasters: Lived experiences from Japan 73
11. Queer politics and solidarity: Post–Cold War homonationalism in East Asia 99
12. Medals and conspiracies: Chinese and Japanese online trans-exclusionary discourses during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games 117
13. Transcending the gendered body? Transphobia and the construction of the self in the writing of Shōno Yoriko 135
14. Feeling the friction: Reworking Japanese film studies/criticism from a queer lens 165
15. Contributors 185
16. Index 187