Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011
Subculture inspires young male cross-dressing trend
Special clubs, 'cosplay,' 'anime' just latest twist to long tradition
By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110108f1.html (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110108f1.html)
He's a 52-year-old medical doctor who goes by the name Ayaka Ogawa when living out his cross-dressing fantasies of being a woman in her mid-40s.
"As you see from my (cross-dressing) age, I look young when I disguise myself as a woman," the doctor, who only wanted to be identified as Ogawa, said in a recent telephone interview. "I feel good being told I look young."