• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Japan is extremely conservative in certain ways, usually because of their focus on conformance to social norms.

    I encountered gay men not-infrequently while I lived there, and Japanese people are (for the most part) fine with them even if uncomfortable, but from a legal standpoint, Japan mostly prefers to pretend the LGBT+ community doesn’t exist, and can be very hostile towards it when it’s forced to acknowledge them (such as in medical contexts).