Appendix 2

An annotated guide to Japan’s major lesbian websites

 

www.sukotan.com                

Sukotan Kikaku is mainly gay male-orientated but it does have up-to-date information about current events and queer rights movements. (Japanese only)

 

http://www.utopia-asia.com/womjapn.htm          

List of venues in Osaka and Tokyo, written in English.  The main Utopia site is a wealth of information about homosexual Asia.

 

http://www2.big.or.jp/~cham/     

Ruby in the Sky with Citrine – provides a forum for Japanese lesbians to keep in touch with one another via message boards.  (Japanese only)

 

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3006/info.html      

GrrrlZone Japan provides this up-to-date (September 2000) list of lesbian night venues in English.

 

http://www.imasy.or.jp/~tsukasa/alw.html         

Asian Lesbian Wave (Japanese only)

 

http://plaza28.mbn.or.jp/~dyke/lesfemi_home.html       

Lesbian Feminism in Japan – maintained by Ayako Hattori, essays written in both English and Japanese.  English translations are kinda dodgy.

 

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Park/3267/index.html      

Tokyo Dyke Info is maintained by Meelie, and lists lesbian nightclubs, organisations and links to other useful sites.   English.

 

http://www.dyke.to/           

Dyke to Dyke – Message boards and links – focus on communication rather than information.

 

http://i-on.gr.jp/bravissima/english/index.html  

Bravissima. In English and Japanese, Up-to-date information, news, and details of events.  Links section also has an extensive list of personal lesbian home pages.

 

http://www.silkroad.ne.jp/bibian/bisexual/bi-menu.html           

Bibian is  essentially for bisexual women but has a  comprehensive list of resources and chat forums. In Japanese.

 

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/akiko/girlish/     

Girlish !  For girlish Japanese lesbians, one would presume.

 

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