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In 1980, a gay man hid two journals above a light fixture a stiflg apartment Tokyo. It was a vtage issue of the Japane gay magaze Barazoku, and two journals wh serene, waterlor vers, wrten between 1980 and 1984.

The diari belonged to Noriyi, a young gay man who had lived here alone, the sixth buildg of the first street of the fourth subdivisn of Nishishju nearly thirty years ago.

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By the 1980s, when Noriyi would have equented the gay bars and ffee clubs of Ni-chōme, the area had bee the center of gay life Tokyo, and, by extensn, Japan.

In a cy of mosts (most rtrants, most people, most vendg mach), Ni-chōme was no exceptn, boastg the hight ncentratn of gay bars, clubs, and f Asia—over 300 crammed to five square cy blocks. For young gay men like Noriyi, would have been the center of the world.

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The days, wh the rise of ter datg and the greater acceptance of gay rights Japan, Ni-chōme’s role as a rare safe space for LGBT Japane has dimished, although is still the premier LGBT nightlife district the untry. By 1980, he’d found a job at a gay host bar, an eratn of the peculiar Japane stutn known as the hosts club, self a cheaper, grtier eratn of geisha culture.

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THE GAY TEEN-BOY ROMANCE COMIC BELOVED BY WOMEN JAPAN