Masami Tamagawa

Skidmore College · Department of World Languages and Literatures

This study of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society around. This book is ideal for students and scholars...

This study of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society around. The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World...

Despite the great majority of them being fluent in English, albeit in a lesser extent among those in Australia, participants expressed their strong desire to have a support group for LGBT diasporas from Japan. This chapter examines some of the services and events they wish a support group could offer, including an immigration-related service, an LG...

The main focus of this chapter is participants’ experiences as LGBT individuals in Japan. About a half of them were not out of the closet while living in Japan for reasons typically related to the Japanese family and their concern over sekentei (public decency). Regardless of their being in the closet, many experienced a bullying, unfair treatment,...

This chapter addresses some of the key themes concurrent in the findings. Some of the themes to explore include the notion of “gay friendly” Japan, the feasibility of an LGBT refugee from Japan through case studies, LGBT immigration from Japan as a gendered experience, advantages and disadvantages of immigration to the USA, Canada, and Australia, a...

This chapter explores participants’ experiences in three countries through their narratives as well as statistical analyses. One of the most voiced, satisfied experience is coming out of the closet. The majority of the participants said that they were happy with their life now. They feel free, no longer hide their sexuality or gender identity, made...

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With little existing scholarship on LGBT diaspora from Asia, this groundbreaking book examines the intersectionality of migration, sexuality, and gender, as well as race and ethnicity, through an analysis of the transnational experiences of Japanese LGBT diasporas in the USA, Canada and Australia. Employing a variety of methods, including a questio...

While empirical studies on LGBT individuals coming out to their parents are common in Western societies, these studies are rare in non-Western societies. This article attempts to fill that void by shedding light on the experiences of Japanese individuals coming out to their parents. The coming-out narratives of Japanese LGBT individuals (N = 43) we...

Invisibility is a major obstacle to the improvement of the lives of GLBT individuals in contemporary Japanese society. Japanese GLBT scholars and activists attest that it is extremely difficult to come out of the closet in Japan. There is little systematic research, however, as to why. Using online survey data from 136 GLBT individuals in Japan, th...

Despite its apparent gay friendliness, Japanese society has witnessed few public debates or social movements in support of same-sex marriage. It seems that Japanese scholars and activists are only just beginning to advocate the legal protection of homosexual couples. Although Japan has witnessed a few recent developments toward same-sex marriage, a...

"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Sociology ..." Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-327).