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podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 251, Homosexuality in Japan.

So this is an episode I've hesitated to write for a long time, not because it isn't important or interesting, far from it, but because it's far outside my own speciality. As you probably know or have

guessed at least by this point, my focus was, is and always has been political history,

the history of the Japanese state or of states more generally, how they organize themselves,

organize their armed forces, manage their economies, and attempt

to shape their societies.

Social history has never really been my forte, not again because it's not interesting or not

important, it's just not where I found my passion.

Still, this is the History of Japan podcast, not the political history of Japan podcast,

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