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Japan's gender-bending history

  • Written by Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology and Art History, University of Michigan
imageGenking, a male-born Japanese TV personality and 'genderless' pioneer. _genking_/Instagram

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In the eye-catching styles modeled by fashion-conscious young adults, there’s a...

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