'Gender-free' hard to define, harder to sell | The Japan Times

Last year’s cancellation of lectures on human rights in Kokubunji, Tokyo, has pitted key feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno and free-speech advocates against conservatives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government opposed to the use of “gender-free” — a term whose definition varies but somehow conjures up negative images. Experts say the cancellation reflects a backlash by conservative Japanese against the

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