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Emily

@suika

Editor at @tokyoreview.net. Freelance journalist & translator. Independent researcher specialising in Japanese LGBTQ+ politics. Volunteer lexicographer. Aspiring tanka poet. 研究者。記者。翻訳者。編者。日蘭・蘭日辞書編集者。歌人。元短期間早稲ギャル。

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I went with 女性

11.03.2026 16:58 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Someone went completely wild when compiling options for the gender field on this form.

11.03.2026 16:50 👍 34 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

I forgot how damn good Porter Robinson's Worlds live sets were.

So envious of anyone who got to experience it firsthand at festivals/concert venues.

11.03.2026 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trans person: I'm trans

Society: okay

Porter Robinson - Unison (Worlds Live Edit):
Every place you've ever imagined, it's real
There is a fictional city in your mind and you know every corner of it
Your mind is a world, each of us is a place
ううう

11.03.2026 15:29 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I can't relate to "former gifted children" at all, because from age four to age six or so, the teachers actually thought I was hella incompetent and unintelligent and that I didn't want to pay attention to anything.

Expectations were LOW 😌✌️

11.03.2026 15:00 👍 106 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 0

Maybe, yeah

11.03.2026 12:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

私はちょうど何が重要か
私はちょうど何が重要か
私はちょうど何が重要か
見つけようとしている
私は
私はちょうど何が重要か
私はちょうど何が
私はちょうど何が重要か
私はちょうど何が重要か
私はちょうど
私はちょ

11.03.2026 12:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Launching #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social in Singapore🇸🇬
Hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster #NUS

Discussant: Prof SHIMIZU Akiko @akishmz.bsky.social @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

📅 Apr 16 (Thu)
⏰ 4pm
📍 AS8 04-04 (in person only)
🔗 tinyurl.com/emergentgend... (sign up!)

11.03.2026 09:32 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Something about ペンラ as an abbreviation of ペンライト doesn't sit right with me.

11.03.2026 09:46 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oke, maar hoe wordt iemand met een verleden als dit tot lokale *lijsttrekker* gekozen? Wordt dit als normaal gedrag gezien, of waren de andere kandidaten voor het lijsttrekkerschap nóg controversiëlere figuren?

11.03.2026 09:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone who sheltered at this school survived the tsunami. But seeing the picture books made me realise just how difficult it must have been for children to process what had happened. I remember how one book was about a pet that got separated from its human family (or maybe it died?).

11.03.2026 07:26 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The second tanka I ever wrote, almost three years ago, was about my visit to the Arahama Elementary School Ruins.

On the second floor (not pictured here), there was a bookcase filled with picture books about the tsunami, clearly written for children, and I burst into tears upon seeing it.

11.03.2026 07:25 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Some disaster-hit regions struggle to pass down lessons to younger generation Logistics and costs are among the hurdles faced in conducting disaster education for younger people with little or no memory of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

"About 40% of municipalities in [Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were] hit hard by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami[,] face difficulties in conducting disaster education for children born after the incident, a Jiji Press survey has found."

11.03.2026 06:28 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
遠くまで来てしまったね風が吹くあの日の春に戻れないのに

遠くまで来てしまったね風が吹くあの日の春に戻れないのに

遠くまで来てしまったね風が吹くあの日の春に戻れないのに
#tanka #短歌 #東日本大震災から15年

11.03.2026 05:52 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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震災の絵本見たとき泣き出した荒浜校舎忘れられない
 /エミリー・メープル・ボーン

三年前、詠み始めたばかりの頃の短歌です。「震災遺構仙台市立荒浜小学校」を訪問した経験について。

#311を忘れない #東日本大震災 #短歌

11.03.2026 05:35 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Nancy 3/7/26

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I am a huge opponent of nuclear weapons, but I feel forced to agree with this assesment, due to recent world events.

10.03.2026 15:07 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons Yes, really.

"The great tragedy of the 21st century is that Pyongyang’s success has shown that, while the cost of trying to acquire a nuclear weapon is high, the cost of failure, as seen in Baghdad, Tripoli, and Kyiv, is existential."

10.03.2026 15:02 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
黙らない。国会前を行進すデモのコールに呼応する声

黙らない。国会前を行進すデモのコールに呼応する声

黙らない。国会前を行進すデモのコールに呼応する声

#平和憲法を守る0310

コの音を連続させることで口の形を想起させる歌を詠みました。憲法を守れ!!広がれ連帯の輪!

10.03.2026 10:32 👍 163 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 0

The cool thing about identifying only as one of the two it is that it opens you up to the possibility of others thinking you're weird about trans people in one way or another.

10.03.2026 11:52 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Might start identifying as both bisexual and pansexual at the same time, to both sow and avoid confusion.

10.03.2026 11:44 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Oh maybe yeah!

10.03.2026 08:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Talking about how I feel so old and frail now that I'm 28 so my friends who are in their 30s and 40s feel less alone about their predicament ❤️

10.03.2026 08:34 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Contemporary LGBTQ+ Politics in Japan: Policy Issues, Discourses and Developments, and the role of Foreign Actors - Leiden Asia Centre This report offers a comprehensive overview of LGBTQ+ politics in Japan. It examines policy issues impacting LGBTQ+ communities and analyzes policymaking processes

Yep, here!

10.03.2026 07:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Piracy discourse has me reminded of the time the Dutch film industry tried suing the government for 1.2 billion euro in "lost revenue" from piracy, and half the country's first response was "I don't think I've ever illegally downloaded a *Dutch* movie..."

10.03.2026 06:20 👍 70 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

Weird question but does anyone know of a spot in Tokyo that has a bunch of Takaichi posters next to each other?

10.03.2026 06:09 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

They have a lot!

10.03.2026 05:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Japan urges Iran to exercise restraint over war with US, Israel - The Mainichi TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan urged Iran on Monday to exercise restraint in phone talks between their foreign ministers amid the Middle Eastern country's esc

"Japan urged Iran on Monday to exercise restraint in phone talks between their foreign ministers amid the Middle Eastern country's escalating military clash with the United States and Israel."

10.03.2026 05:27 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

Yeah. The Gender & Sexuality Center.

10.03.2026 05:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Nago mayor lodges protest after US Marine chopper lands on baseball field - The Mainichi NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi lodged a protest with the central government on Monday after a U.S. military helicopter made an eme

"Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi lodged a protest with the central government on Monday after a U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing on a baseball field while a youth team was practicing, demanding that U.S. forces stop flying over residential areas or near schools."

10.03.2026 05:26 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0