Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in ...

This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality ...

Japan sex-ed group faces tough requests on 'taboo' topic: 'Don't talk ...

According to a survey of about 10,000 junior and senior high school and university students conducted in 2017 by the Japanese Association for Sex Education under the Tokyo-based Foundation for the ...