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Sexuality in Japan

Index Sexuality in Japan

Sexuality in Japan developed separately from that of mainland Asia, as Japan did not adopt the Confucian view of marriage, in which chastity is highly valued. [1]

104 relations: Age of consent, Aging of Japan, Anime, Asia, Australia, BDSM, Birth control in Japan, Birth rate, Bukkake, Canada, Celibacy syndrome, Chastity, Chōnin, Child pornography, Child sexual abuse, Comic book, Condom, Confucian view of marriage, Courtesan, Demography of Japan, Developed country, Durex, Edo period, Ero guro, Eroge, Exhibitionism, Flesh Market, Food play, Foot fetishism, Futanari, Glossary of anime and manga, Gonzo pornography, Government of Japan, Hentai, History of Japan, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in Africa, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Hojōjutsu, HuffPost, Internet Archive, Irony, Japan, Japan Today, Japanese bondage, Japanese economic miracle, Japanese yen, Knot, Kodansha, Law enforcement in Japan, ..., Law of Japan, LGBT rights by country or territory, Libido, Lolicon, Loophole, Lotion play, Manga, Marriage in Japan, Middle Ages, Milton Diamond, Monogamy, Napoleonic Code, National Diet, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, New Zealand, Nyotaimori, Omorashi, Oral contraceptive pill, Osaka, Perversion, Philippines, Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs, Pink film, Pornography, Pornography in Japan, Prefectures of Japan, Prostitution in Japan, Recognition of same-sex unions in Japan, Republic of Ireland, Response bias, Same-sex marriage, Satoru Kobayashi (director), Sex industry, Sex reassignment surgery, Sexploitation film, Shohei Imamura, Shotacon, Shunga, Sodomy, Sweden, Synonym, Tamakeri, Tax deduction, Tentacle erotica, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, The Japan Times, The Pornographers, Tokyo, Transgender, Ukiyo-e, Videocassette recorder, Women in Japan, Woodblock printing, World War II. Expand index (54 more) »

Age of consent

The age of consent is the age below which a minor is considered to be legally incompetent to consent to sexual acts.

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Aging of Japan

The aging of Japan is thought to outweigh all other nations, with Japan being purported to have the highest proportion of elderly citizens.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.

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Birth control in Japan

Various types of birth control in Japan are available to women either in drugstores, online, or through visiting a clinic.

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Birth rate

The birth rate (technically, births/population rate) is the total number of live births per 1,000 in a population in a year or period.

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Bukkake

is a sex act portrayed in pornographic films, in which several men ejaculate on a woman, or on another man.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Celibacy syndrome

Celibacy syndrome (セックスしない症候群, sekkusu shinai shōkōgun) is a media hypothesis proposing that a growing number of Japanese adults have lost interest in sexual activity and have also lost interest in romantic love, dating and marriage.

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Chastity

Chastity is sexual conduct of a person deemed praiseworthy and virtuous according to the moral standards and guidelines of their culture, civilization or religion.

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Chōnin

was a social class that emerged in Japan during the early years of the Tokugawa period.

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Child pornography

Child pornography is pornography that exploits children for sexual stimulation.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Condom

A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device, used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

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Confucian view of marriage

To the Confucians, marriage is of important significance both in the family and in society.

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Courtesan

A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.

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Demography of Japan

The demographic features of the population of Japan include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects regarding the population.

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Developed country

A developed country, industrialized country, more developed country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

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Durex

Durex is a registered trademark name for a range of condoms originally developed and produced in the United Kingdom by SSL International.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Ero guro

is a literary and artistic movement originating c. 1930 in Japan.

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Eroge

An is a Japanese pornographic video game.

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Exhibitionism

Exhibitionism is the act of exposing in a public or semi-public context those parts of one's body that are not normally exposed – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks.

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Flesh Market

is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Satoru Kobayashi and starring Tamaki Katori.

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Food play

Food play can have sexual or non-sexual connotations.

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Foot fetishism

Foot fetishism, foot partialism, foot worship or podophilia, is a pronounced sexual interest in feet.

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Futanari

is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny.

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Glossary of anime and manga

This is a list of terms that are specific to anime and manga.

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Gonzo pornography

Gonzo pornography is a style of pornographic film that attempts to place the viewer directly into the scene.

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Government of Japan

The government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited and is relegated primarily to ceremonial duties.

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Hentai

Outside of Japan, (lit. "pervert") is anime and manga pornography.

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History of Japan

The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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HIV/AIDS in Africa

HIV/AIDS is a major public health concern and cause of death in many parts of Africa.

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HIV/AIDS in Asia

In 2008, 4.7 million people in Asia were living with HIV according to the United Nations (UN).

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Hojōjutsu

Hojōjutsu (捕縄術), or Torinawajutsu (捕縄術), or just Nawajutsu (縄術), is the traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person using cord or rope (said nawa 縄 in Japanese).

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Today

Japan Today is an online newspaper based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Japanese bondage

means "tight binding," while literally means "the beauty of tight binding." Kinbaku is a Japanese style of bondage or BDSM which involves tying a person up using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope (often jute, hemp or linen and generally around 6 mm in diameter, but sometimes as small as 4 mm, and between 7 – 8 m long).

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Japanese economic miracle

The Japanese economic miracle was Japan's record period of economic growth between the post-World War II era to the end of Cold War.

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Japanese yen

The is the official currency of Japan.

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Knot

A knot is a method of fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving.

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Kodansha

is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Law enforcement in Japan

Law enforcement in Japan is provided by the Prefectural Police under the oversight of the National Police Agency or NPA.

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Law of Japan

The Law of Japan refers to the entirety of the legally achieved norms in Japan.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Laws affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or territory; everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty as punishment for same-sex romantic/sexual activity or identity.

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Libido

Libido, colloquially known as sex drive, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.

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Lolicon

, also romanized as lolikon or rorikon, is Japanese discourse or media focusing on the attraction to young or prepubescent girls.

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Loophole

A loophole is an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system.

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Lotion play

Lotion Play is a subset of the better known Wet-And-Messy fetish (WAM), which typically involves participants using food (such as pudding or whipped cream), mud, or paint as a lubricant to facilitate sexual activity.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Marriage in Japan

Marriage in Japan is a legal and social institution at the center of the household.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Milton Diamond

Milton Diamond (born March 6, 1934 in New York City) is a Professor Emeritus of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Napoleonic Code

The Napoleonic Code (officially Code civil des Français, referred to as (le) Code civil) is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804.

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National Diet

The is Japan's bicameral legislature.

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National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) is a national research institute in Japan.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nyotaimori

, often referred to as "body sushi", is the Japanese practice of serving sashimi or sushi from the naked body of a woman.

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Omorashi

, sometimes abbreviated as simply "omo", is a form of urolagnia (urine fetish) subculture originating and predominately recognized in Japan, in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or wetting themselves, or from seeing someone else experiencing a full bladder or wetting themselves.

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Oral contraceptive pill

Oral contraceptives, abbreviated OCPs, also known as birth control pills, are medications taken by mouth for the purpose of birth control.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Perversion

Perversion is a type of human behavior that deviates from that which is understood to be orthodox or normal.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs

Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs is a book by photojournalist Joan Sinclair, chronicling her exploration of the secret world of fuzoku (prostitution) in Japan.

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Pink film

in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sex.

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Pornography

Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal.

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Pornography in Japan

Pornography in Japan is a large and intertwined business of adult entertainment with unique characteristics that readily distinguish it from Western pornography.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47, forming the first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Prostitution in Japan

Prostitution in Japan has existed throughout the country's history.

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Recognition of same-sex unions in Japan

Same-sex marriage in Japan is illegal.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Response bias

Response bias is a general term for a wide range of tendencies for participants to respond inaccurately or falsely to questions.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Satoru Kobayashi (director)

was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Sex industry

The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses which either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment.

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Sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery or SRS (also known as gender reassignment surgery, gender confirmation surgery, genital reconstruction surgery, gender-affirming surgery, or sex realignment surgery) is the surgical procedure (or procedures) by which a transgender person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that socially associated with their identified gender.

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Sexploitation film

A sexploitation film (or "sex-exploitation film") is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity.

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Shohei Imamura

was a Japanese film director.

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Shotacon

, short for, is Japanese slang describing an attraction to young boys.

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Shunga

is a Japanese term for erotic art.

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Sodomy

Sodomy is generally anal or oral sex between people or sexual activity between a person and a non-human animal (bestiality), but it may also mean any non-procreative sexual activity.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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Tamakeri

Tamakeri (玉蹴り) (lit. ball kicking) or Ballbusting is a sexual fetish and subgenre of BDSM within which a man's testicles are abused.

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Tax deduction

Tax deduction is a reduction of income that is able to be taxed and is commonly a result of expenses, particularly those incurred to produce additional income.

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Tentacle erotica

is found in some horror or hentai titles, with tentacled creatures (usually fictional monsters) having sexual intercourse with predominantly females.

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The Australian Feminist Law Journal

The Australian Feminist Law Journal is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering feminist legal issues from a critical perspective.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Pornographers

The Pornographers is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Shohei Imamura and based on a novel (Erogotoshitachi) by Akiyuki Nosaka.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Videocassette recorder

A videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.

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Women in Japan

While women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced.

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Woodblock printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_Japan

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