
If you have a question about Japan please ask me on my channel and I will try to answer it. Today's question: How is homosexuality viewed in Japan? Opening sequence: GengoNoTabi www.youtube.com Song :Lazy day Artist: Acoustic Sounds Partial Transcript Okay, one of my viewers asked me "How is homosexuality viewed in Japan?" So to answer that question, first you need to understand, well, if you're a westerner you're coming from a Christian based society and here in Japan it's a Buddhist based society. But actually even though Japanese people are considered Buddhist they don't actively practice Buddhism. They just follow the customs and the holidays like that, but they don't know about Buddhism in depth. So, if you're comparing this to the United States--I'm from the United States--a lot of traditional Christians view homosexuality as a sin, and that's because of the way they were brought up and what so called Christianity has taught them. And that concept of sin, that gay is wrong, that it's sinful, it just doesn't exist here in Japan. Okay, but the thing about Japan is that there is a "supposed to" model way of life. And what I mean by that is, for example, if you're a Japanese man you are supposed to go to college after highs chool. After college you're supposed to join a company, you're supposed to work at that company for 30 years until you retire. You're supposed to have a family, you're supposed to have children, you're supposed to buy a house, and the list goes on <b>...</b>
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