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Tobias Waters
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2025 in Review: The Year for LGBTQ+ in Japan
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...
10Dance Review: The New Japanese Gay Netflix Movie
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...
Friends: Old-School Chinese Gay Bar in Tokyo
Shinjuku Nichome, like many places in Japan — and across the world — is in a state of consistent and constant change. Even in the...
SM Yamato: Tokyo Karaoke Gay Bar
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...
Our Favorite Tokyo Gay Love Hotels
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...
Japanese Trans Women Accepted in Women’s Universities
In the west, particularly in the US and the UK, the participation of transgender people — and most notably trans women — in organisations or...
The Blue Boy Trial: A Pivotal Moment for the Japanese Transgender Community
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...
The Best Tokyo Spots to Meet Gay Men, Top to Bottom
One question that we often receive here at JGG, in one form another, is — to put it delicately — “where can I meet other...
Back Street Girls Impressions: Your New Problematic Fave?
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...
Fundoshi: Gay Japan’s Most Enticing Underwear!
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...