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Happy New Year from your friends at the Japan Gay Guide! As we turn towards the bright light of 2026, we thought we would take...

Arguably the most hotly-anticipated LGBTQ+ movie of the season, after a year of anticipation, Netflix have delivered 10Dance, a gay ballroom dancing romance with style...

Shinjuku Nichome, like many places in Japan — and across the world — is in a state of consistent and constant change. Even in the...

One of the newest bars in Nichome, Japan’s gay capital, SM Yamato has quickly become incredibly popular among both regulars and tourists. But what is...

So you’ve had a night on the town in Tokyo, and whether you’ve been out in Nichome or another of the myriad LGBTQ+ bars in...

In the west, particularly in the US and the UK, the participation of transgender people — and most notably trans women — in organisations or...

As with almost any country in the world, Japan has an at-best chequered history when it comes to accepting and accommodating transgender people. Although today...

One question that we often receive here at JGG, in one form another, is — to put it delicately — “where can I meet other...

Anime has a somewhat chequered history when it comes to representation of transgender people (as has the vast majority of mass media). However, there have...

If you’ve ever been to Japan, or even just seen Japan and Japanese people depicting on screen or on the page, you may be familiar...