- 著者
- Susaki Seiji
- 出版者
- Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- 雑誌
- Geographical reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University (ISSN:03868710)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.56, pp.73-83, 2021
Unlike gay districts in the West and Australia, which are home to the gay and lesbian community, Shinjuku Ni-chome in Tokyo, the center of gay and lesbian businesses in Japan, is not a place where most gay men and lesbians choose to live. This paper examinesthe perceptions of gay men and lesbians about Shinjuku Ni-chome to explain why they do not prefer to live in Shinjuku Ni-chome. Fieldwork included snowball sampling semi-structured interviews with gay men and lesbians and participation in the activity of “Ni-chome umisakura,” which is responsiblefor garbage collection in Shinjuku Ni-chome. It revealed the following reasons for gay men and lesbians not choosing to reside in Shinjuku Ni-chome: First, gay men and lesbians consider the living environment of Shinjuku Ni-chome poor, noisy, and littered with trash. Second, the cost of housing in Shinjuku Ni-chome is high. Third, living in Shinjuku Ni-chome would mean that they have to come out and expose their sexual orientation. Fourth, since the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) support organizations in Shinjuku Ni-chome is few,and Shinjuku Ward does not have a “partnership vow program,” gay men and lesbians may not receive some supports from local government. Thus, Shinjuku Ni-chome is not a preferred place of residence for gay men and lesbians in Japan but a place they choose for entertainment. The gay district in Japan is different from the ones in the West as it is used only as a temporary refuge, a place for amusement and leisure, by gay men and lesbians.
- 著者
- Aoyama Masafumi
- 出版者
- Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- 雑誌
- Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University (ISSN:03868710)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.36, pp.49-58, 2001
Formative periods of rock glaciers distributed in the Yari-Hotaka Mountain Range, northern Japanese Alps, were estimated from weathering rind thickness. The results suggest that the age of rock glaciers in the Minamisawa-Kita cirque and the most headward of the Tenguppara cirque is between the age of Early Yarisawa Stage II moraines and the Late Yarisawa Stage II moraines, and the age of rock glaciers in the northern part of the Tenguppara cirque and Ohkiretto cirque is same or younger than the age of the Late Yarisawa Stage II moraines. The ages of the Early Yarisawa Stage II and the Late Yarisawa Stage II are estimated to 15 ka and 10 ka. Therefore, rock glaciers in the Minamisawa-Kita cirque and the most headward of the Tenguppara cirque were considered to be formed during the Late Glacial Stage (15 ka-10 ka), and rock glaciers in the northern part of the Tenguppara cirque and Ohkiretto cirque were considered to be formed about 10 ka or the early Holocene.