Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on translation and transliteration -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A new age of visibility? LGBTQ+ issues in contemporary Japan -- The progress of LGBT rights in Japan in the 2010s -- Same-sex partnerships in Japan: Would legalization mean deradicalization? -- LGBTQ human rights in Japanese laws and policies -- Being LGBT in disasters: Lived experiences from Japan -- Queer politics and solidarity: Post-Cold War homonationalism in East Asia -- Medals and conspiracies: Chinese and Japanese online trans-exclusionary discourses during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games -- Transcending the gendered body? Transphobia and the construction of the self in the writing of Shōno Yoriko -- Feeling the friction: Reworking Japanese film studies/criticism from a queer lens -- Contributors -- Index.