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The connotation of this term is widely understood in Japan amongst heterosexuals and lesbians alike. 38 Identifying the lesbian in contemporary Japan About ten years ago there was a Japanese singer who was a lesbian. Her former lover came out and told everyone that the singer was a lesbian, and after that society didn’t want anything to do with her. Everyone kept on saying ‘rezu’ [lezzo], ‘rezu’. In Japanese the word ‘rezubian’ isn’t used very much, people say ‘rezu’. And that’s what everyone called her in magazines and newspapers … .

The following interchange between a leading otokoyaku and musumeyaku (in the film Dream Girls, a documentary film made about the Takarazuka Revue) clearly illustrates the depth to which the actors’ performances maintain and perpetuate the fixity of gender polarity vis-à-vis mainstream Japanese society. ‘Female’ actor: The male players can be more natural. That’s my view as a female player. We must back up the men. In normal life we have to stay in the background. We end up boosting the men. ] Help me!

To assume this lived and acquired knowledge is somehow Identifying the lesbian in contemporary Japan 37 beyond or outside ‘real’ women’s understandings is highly problematic and therefore I have no intention of characterising them as either anomalous or in opposition to mainstream notions of what it is to be a ‘real Japanese woman’. Nevertheless, their choice of sexual identifications does need to be understood within an historical context of Japanese socio-linguistic meanings particularly given the negative and exclusionary techniques that have been employed over the past hundred years.

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