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Junko Mitsuhashi (三橋 順子, Mitsuhashi Junko, born May 23, 1955) is a Japanese social and cultural historian. She specializes in the history of gender and sexuality, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of transgender people in Japan. Mitsuhashi is recognized as the first transgender lecturer at a Japanese university.

Career

Around 1995, Mitsuhashi began lecturing and writing from the perspective of male-to-female transgender individuals. In 1999, she started conducting historical and sociological research on transgender communities in Japan. In 2000, she was appointed as a lecturer in sociology within the Faculty of Letters at Chuo University, becoming the first openly transgender faculty member at a Japanese university.

Her seminal book, Josou to Nihonjin (Cross-Dressing and the Japanese), received the 19th Mineo Hashimoto Award in 2010, presented by the Society for the Study of Contemporary Customs.

Works

• Josou to Nihonjin (Cross-dressing and the Japanese) Kodansha, 2008, ISBN 978-4062879606
• Shinjuku "sei naru machi" no rekishi chiri, Asahi shimbun shuppan, 2018, ISBN 978-4022630773
• Rekishi no naka no tayousei: Nihon to ajia hengen suru sekushuarite, 2022. Iwanaimi shoten, ISBN 978-4000256759

Reference

1. "三橋 順子 プロフィール". 文春オンライン (in Japanese). 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
2. 荻野, 美穂 (2023-03-27), 三橋順子著『歴史のなかの多様な「性」』を読む (in Japanese), doi:10.57269/antitled.2.0_89, retrieved 2024-12-12
3. "Profile of Junko Mitsuhashi". 続々・たそがれ日記. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
4. Mitsuhashi, Junko (2019-12-01). "Japanese University from the Viewpoint of a Transgender Professor". TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES. 24 (12): 12_23–12_26. doi:10.5363/tits.24.12_23. ISSN 1342-3363.
5. "現代風俗研究会". genpoo.kir.jp. Retrieved 2024-12-12.

• Japanese transgender women
• 21st-century Japanese LGBTQ people