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Dr Thomas Baudinette Profile picture
@tbaudinette
May 31 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
This issue of Japanese right wing magazine WiLL is full of hateful, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that is incredibly divorced from mainstream Japanese views that overwhelmingly support marriage equality and #LGBTQ rights. That this is hitting the shelves around #PrideMonth is extremely sad
What I find so bizarre about the extreme right-wing's playbook against LGBTQ in Japan is how they are borrowing rhetoric emerging out of the US to critique the US, and then trying to link this to Japanese "tradition," when their hate is grounded in ahistorical discourses
In case people are curious, in the immediate postwar, gay male culture was often celebrated by Japan's extreme right wing as a bulwark against Westernisation. Most famously by Mishima Yukio in novels like Running Horses. I write about it in my book!

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Apr 17
Excited to learn that a team at Chulalongkorn have created a stage adaption of "The Blue Hour" #อนธการ by @Nuchyfilm. Those who know their Thai queer cinema history will realise that this was where #BL legend #GunAtthaphan @AtthaphanP had his big break! ImageImage
In fact, Gun was nominated and won numerous awards thanks to his performance in this film as a bullied student who enters a romantic and sexual relationship with another boy played by the equally legendary #OabNithi @OabnithiW Image
@Nuchyfilm @AtthaphanP @OabnithiW P'Nuchy @Nuchyfilm noticed me! Such a big fan of their work (especially Not Me, which I discuss in my forthcoming book on Thai #BL) Image
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Apr 10
Keidanren revealing just how out of touch they are... what's important to note, according to my research, is that Japanese and Korean pop culture is typically consumed in tandem. Creating a narrative of "combat" will merely alienate international fans who want both together
Not to mention that a wealth of research indicates that attempts by the Japanese government to utilise Cool Japan strategically have often failed, since the old men who run the government (and businesses) fundamentally don't understand Japanese pop culture's appeal
A link to download my research exploring the synthesis of Japanese and Korean pop culture fandom in Australia

academia.edu/49332314/Consu…
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Mar 8
I thought I'd comment on this particular scene from the BBC expose on @johnnys. The discussion of sexual abuse and coercion at the company are super important, but this segment comes across as ignorant and culturally dismissive of an aesthetic with a long, pre-Johnnys history
The framing of the expose and its attempts to position @johnnys culture as some kind of always-already secret world of pedophilia that stems from a moral failing on behalf of Japanese society is very lazy journalism and undercuts the important broader message of the piece
Simply put "wow, they don't have beards!" as if this is some kind of proof that the company sells pedophilic fantasies or that this is somehow tied to Kitagawa's personal tastes is just ludicrously wrong, even if Kitagawa engaged in horrific behaviour towards the Jrs
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