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Being gay in Japan: Homophobia & Universalism? |
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 Japan has a rich and flourishing history of male homoerotic art and literature, so why is it that LGBT progress in that country is so glacially slow?
Indeed, Japan's key moment was when it turned its back on Christianity. It was the first time that Europeans faced a technologically advanced and centralised state on a par with its own,which led to some devastating consequences for persecuted Japanese Catholics thereafter, as the nobility persecuted them. Catholic Jesuit homophobia offended many daimyo (members of the nobility) and samurai when these missionaries first made contact in the sixteenth century. This contributed to the Shogunate military viceroyalty's decision to outlaw such religious proselytisation in the seventeenth century.
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Eastern Asia 
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