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New half (ニューハーフ) is a Japanese culture-bound term to refer to people assigned male at birth who exhibit stereotypically effeminate behaviours, mannerisms, and/or styles of dress.Yukari Ishii, “The Commercialization and Current Status of Transgender and Cross-Dresser Sexuality,” Humanities Bulletin, 2017, pp. 11-34, viewed January 29, 2024. Overview The term is commonly used commercially in Japan to refer to settings such as drag, club performers and sex workers, though not all applicable individuals consider themselves 'new half'. The term may also be used to refer to transgender women. Japan has a variety of related terms of varying social acceptability and perceived pejorativeness, including (ミスターレディ) 'mister lady', 'blue boy', (フェムボーイ) 'femboy', 'onee', 'okama' and so on. In particular, 'new half' is comparable to the English pejorative or sex work term 'shemale' and is sometimed translated directly as such. History In historical J ...
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ...
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Betty's Mayonnaise
Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate is a family-owned company based in Yorkshire, England. Bettys Café tea rooms serve traditional meals with influences from both Switzerland and Yorkshire. Taylors of Harrogate was founded in 1886 as a family business that specialised in blending tea and coffee. The brand is best known for Yorkshire Tea. In 1962, Bettys acquired Taylors, leading to the formation of Bettys and Taylors Group. The group is currently chaired by Clare Morrow, a former journalist. Yorkshire Tea was introduced by Charles Edward Taylor and his brother in 1883. The brothers later opened "Tea Kiosks" in Harrogate and Ilkley. Today, Bettys and Taylors' brands include Yorkshire Tea, Taylors Coffee Merchants, Bettys Tea Rooms, Bettys Cookery School, and Bettys Confectionery. History The first Bettys tea room was opened in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss confectioner, in 1919. Belmont arrived in England at King's Cross railway station an ...
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LGBTQ Terminology
' is an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used, including ''LGBTQIA'', which incorporates intersex and asexual, aromantic, or agender. ''LGBTQ'' and related initialisms are umbrella terms, originating in the United States, broadly referring to all sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics that are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, cisgender, or endosex, respectively. In the 1990s, gay, lesbian, and bisexual activists adopted the initialism ''LGB''. Terminology eventually shifted to ''LGBT'', as transgender people gained recognition. Around that time, some activists began to reclaim the term ''queer'', seeing it as a more radical and inclusive umbrella term, though others reject it, due to its history as a pejorative. In recognition of this, the 2010s saw the adoption of ''LGBTQ'', and other more inclusive variants. Some versions of the term add a p ...
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Feminizing Hormone Therapy
Feminizing hormone therapy, also known as transfeminine hormone therapy, is a form of Transgender_health_care#Gender-affirming_care , gender-affirming care and a gender-affirming hormone therapy , gender-affirming hormone therapy to change the secondary sex characteristics of transgender people from masculine to feminine. It is a common type of transgender hormone therapy (another being masculinizing hormone therapy) and is used to treat transgender women and non-binary gender, non-binary transfeminine individuals. Some, in particular intersex people, but also some non-transgender people, take this form of therapy according to their personal needs and preferences. The purpose of the therapy is to cause the development of the secondary sex characteristics of the desired sex, such as breasts and a feminine pattern of body hair, hair, fat distribution, fat, and skeletal muscle, muscle distribution. It cannot undo many of the changes produced by naturally occurring puberty, which ...
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Cisgender
The word ''cisgender'' (often shortened to ''cis''; sometimes ''cissexual'') describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not ''transgender''. The prefix '' cis-'' is Latin and means ''on this side of''. The term ''cisgender'' was coined in 1994 as an antonym to ''transgender'', and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender. Related concepts are cisnormativity (the presumption that cisgender identity is preferred or normal) and cissexism (bias or prejudice favoring cisgender people). Etymology The term ''cisgender'' has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix '' cis-'', meaning 'on this side of', which is the opposite of '' trans-'', meaning 'across from' or 'on the other side of'. This usage can be seen in the ''cis''–''trans'' distinction in chemistry, the cis and trans sides of the Golgi apparatus in cellular biology, the ancient Roman term ' ...
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Transphobia
Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender or transsexual people, or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence or anger towards people who do not conform to social gender roles. Transphobia is a type of prejudice and discrimination, similar to racism, sexism, or ableism, and it is closely associated with homophobia. People of color who are transgender experience discrimination above and beyond that which can be explained as a simple combination of transphobia and racism. Transgender youth often experience a combination of abuse from family members, sexual harassment, and bullying or school violence. They are also disproportionately placed in foster care and welfare programs compared to their peers. Adult transgender people regularly encounter sexual violence, police violence, public ridicule, misgendering, or other forms of violence and harassment in their daily lives. These issues cause ma ...
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Mizu Shōbai
In Japanese culture, , literally the water trade, is work that does not provide a contractually fixed salary, but instead relies on the popularity of the performer among their fans or clientele. Broadly, it includes the television, theater, and movie industries, but more narrowly, it can refer to those who work in businesses that serve alcohol or provide sex. Bars, cabarets, health, hostess bars, image clubs, pink salons and soaplands are all part of the ; though they are not sex workers, geisha and kabuki actors are traditionally considered part of the as well. Etymology While the actual origin of the term is debatable, it is likely the term came into use during the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868). The Tokugawa period saw the development of large bathhouses and an expansive network of roadside inns offering "hot baths and sexual release", as well as the expansion of geisha districts and courtesan quarters in cities and towns throughout the country. According to one the ...
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Gender Dysphoria
Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to inconsistency between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder (GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5. The condition was renamed to remove the stigma associated with the term ''disorder''. The International Classification of Diseases uses the term gender incongruence (GI) instead of ''gender dysphoria'', defined as a marked and persistent mismatch between gender identity and assigned gender, regardless of distress or impairment. Not all transgender people have gender dysphoria. Gender nonconformity is not the same thing as gender dysphoria and does not always lead to dysphoria or distress. In pre-pubertal youth, the diagnoses are gender dysphoria in childhood and gender incongruence of childhood. The causes of gender incongruence are unknown but a gender i ...
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Keisuke Kuwata
is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and Lead vocalist, frontman for the Southern All Stars, as well of his own solo band, the Kuwata band. He has also done a significant amount of scoring music for films. He went to Aoyama Gakuin University. In 2010, Southern All Stars was ranked No. 1, and Kuwata's solo band, the Kuwata Band, ranked No. 12 on HMV Japan's list of the top 100 musicians in Japan. Kuwata has worked as a record producer, a movie director, has recorded albums as bandleader of his own band, the Kuwata Band, and has worked on projects Film score, scoring music to film. Biographical information Keisuke Kuwata was born February 26, 1956, and raised in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kuwata's wife, Yuko Hara, is also a member of the Southern All Stars. She is a vocalist and plays keyboards. The two met while in college, where they were in the same circle of musicians. They married in 1982, after the success of the band ...
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Sex Assignment
Sex assignment (also known as gender assignment) is the discernment of an infant's sex, typically made at birth based on an examination of the baby's external genitalia by a healthcare provider such as a midwife, nurse, or physician. In the vast majority of cases (99.95%), sex is assigned unambiguously at birth. However, in about 1 in 2000 births, the baby's genitalia may not clearly indicate male or female, necessitating additional diagnostic steps, and deferring sex assignment. In most countries the healthcare provider's determination, along with other details of the birth, is by law recorded on an official document and submitted to the government for later issuance of a birth certificate and for other legal purposes. The prevalence of intersex, intersex conditions, where a baby's sex characteristics do not conform strictly to typical definitions of male or female, ranges between 0.018% and 1.7%. While some intersex conditions result in Ambiguous genitalia, genital ambigui ...
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Edo Period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characterized by prolonged peace and stability, urbanization and economic growth, strict social order, Isolationism, isolationist foreign policies, and popular enjoyment of Japanese art, arts and Culture of Japan, culture. In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu prevailed at the Battle of Sekigahara and established hegemony over most of Japan, and in 1603 was given the title ''shogun'' by Emperor Go-Yōzei. Ieyasu resigned two years later in favor of his son Tokugawa Hidetada, Hidetada, but maintained power, and defeated the primary rival to his authority, Toyotomi Hideyori, at the Siege of Osaka in 1615 before his death the next year. Peace generally prevailed from this point on, making samurai largely redundant. Tokugawa sh ...
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