Kyohei Itakura
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kyohei Itakura plays a role.
Article
2023 Homonational tongue? Onē-Kotoba (Queen’s Language) among Tokyo amateur gay volleyballers Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement, Omori, Kikuko and Hiroshi Ota (eds.), pp. 61–86 | Article
This ethnographic writing animates the communal role of language through onē-kotoba (queen’s language) among Ni-chōme volleyballers (amateur volleyball-loving gay men in Tokyo). This gayly effeminate speech style remains firmly entrenched in Japanese media-representations of gay male characters… read more