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DISORDER

JAPAN / Society
Jun 13, 2014
Over 600 school students have GID, pioneering survey finds
In the first survey of its kind, at least 606 students are recognized as having gender identity disorder, the education ministry reveals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 7, 2013
Amusing graphic novel about bipolar disorder
Until she was 30, Ellen Forney, an award-winning Seattle-based artist, took her slightly unusual personality for granted. Her obsession with exercise, her impulsive sexuality, her bouts of ecstasy: she considered these things, however uncomfortable, a major part of who she was. After all, aren't all creative types given to strange moods, to pulling all-nighters, to forgetting to eat?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 23, 2013
NHK discusses gender with a fresh openness
Two weeks ago, the nightly series "Heart Net TV," which is broadcast on NHK's educational channel, repeated a program about a 35-year-old Japanese man who married a 70-year-old Dutch man in the Netherlands. The series dedicates several programs a month to sexual minorities, and there was a sidelight at the end of the story about a local newspaper that covered the wedding. Same sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands for almost two decades, so local media attention was about the age difference — and the NHK crew that was covering it. The Dutch thought it interesting that such a story would be considered news in Japan, which they had assumed was sexually open.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 26, 2013
Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder?
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
JAPAN
May 8, 2013
Pension agency assigned special ID numbers to people with gender identity disorder
The Japan Pension Service reportedly assigned a set of fixed digits to the basic pension numbers of people with gender identity disorder last year.

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