I'm with Ma Cherie-san and doinkies-chan, I have never met any Japanese lesbians since I was born.ツ I'm just guessing there should be some lesbians somewhere in Japan, but they don't really come outツ because of the prejudice we still have against gays here.
This is very true, I believe. A good example is that a lot of people see Cosplay, or bands like Antique Cafe, or Miyavi, or whichever Visual bands that exist out there, and think that Japan must be a very open country towards homosexuals, which, (without having any personal experience in any sort of obersvation of predjudice, I am told by Japanse that) it is
not.
At first, I did, and still do not understand the
exact reasons, fetish, or otherwise, that there was so much attention paid to Kaba-chan, and some of the other openly gay tarento, especially the ample attention given to Nong Toom, the Thai kickboxer who became (a rather beautiful, I might add) woman... There is a movie about this subject called "Beautiful Boxer", if people are interested in this particular person.
But then, here in America we have "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", the british import "Queer as Folk", "The L Word", gay-subtext on television shows like "Six feet Under", etcetera etcetera... so the gay-centric entertainment quotient is sizeably larger.